A Matter of Words

as if human existence were an evolutionary stage that could soon be left behind.

Elon Musk recently posted that “it increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.”

Comparisons are sometimes made between LLMs and calculators, to make the point that AI bans are as futile and philistine as calls to return to the abacus. But the work that we bypass when using a calculator is less important than what we bypass when using an AI language generator for writing. To be a human self, a human agent, is to be a linguistic... See more