AI Won’t Make Our Minds Useless According to 400 Years of History

Around the world, people are worried about AI, not just because it might be used to hack our systems, not even just because it might take our jobs, but instead because by making this intelligence that we've long felt unique to us abundant, we worry about what it means for our own relevance.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of intelligence, demand, cognitive, including: This is not, in fact, the first time that we've dealt with these issues.

1. 01One of the big parts of my argument was that the lump of labor fallacy that runs through so much of thinking about AI job loss, that there's only so much work to be done, and if ma
2. 02And this is a much more interesting model for thinking about the AI transition than the familiar story of automation replacing jobs
3. 03Token spend is climbing, security is holding agents back, and companies rolling out AI initiatives might not know how it's truly being used