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Month: August 2025

Against Generative AI

Against Generative AI

I’ve been saving links about the problems with, and flaws within, generative AI for some time. Here’s a selection of links (necessarily incomplete!) to which I’ll keep adding as new work appears.  (You may find an item linked in more than one category; this means it applies to more than one of the themes I’ve outlined below.) To lead off, a thought-provoking quote from Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic: “What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the…

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On Grief

On Grief

A therapist once told me that our lives follow a path that we think we can see stretching out before us, as far as the eye can see. When something changes—when the path takes a sharp left turn because of events we couldn’t or didn’t predict—we begin traveling in a new direction, but we can still see the other path we thought we were on. Grief is the space between the two paths, she said. It’s the gap between reality…

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