A short talk (YouTube video) arguing that AI should be understood as a continuation of humanity's long history of developing tools and technology, and that engaging with the unfolding future is preferable to resisting it. The speaker frames this as an opinionated but pragmatic stance: we are "rushing toward the future together," so learning about AI is important.
I'm going to offer it in kind of an opinionated way, and we'll get into that. I think it's really important for us humans to get to know what's going on with this thing that we call AI. And I think it's important because it's a continuation of where we've been going with tools and technology for thousands of years, and there's no stopping it. So even though it's kind of, you know, it would be nice to kind of dig our heels in and say, no, I don't like doing this new stuff. I think that's, you know, humans have been saying that for a long time, and we don't really have that opportunity. We're all rushing towards the future together. And so I think engaging with the future as it as it is occurring, unfolding, is a better approach than, you know, saying we can't.
