“Sounds mad when you say it. Seems sane when you feel it.”

We read that line in a book last week, and it has been lingering in our mind since. It captures a complicated topic: the soul, if you will.

Fear of AI is presented as an economic matter, sure. But what we think is really grounding that fear is matters of the soul. It’s okay for a robot to create, say, a part for a car. But is it okay for a robot to create a movie? A book on philosophy? A life partner in the form of a chatbot?

We know. Sounds mad when we say it.

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Re: Matters of the soul from our intro. All the more reason to view AI as a tool in your tool belt. An app on your phone. An ingredient in your pantry. Learn how to use a tool and you might be surprised by the amount of projects you’ll be able to fix. These tools are a great place to start (your year).

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Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-generated News Anchors

Go with us here. Say this upcoming news outfit, called Channel 1, uses AI to bring you unbiased news that’s fact-checked more than any other news organization on the planet. Would you trust it? That’s a question we’re not sure we can answer after reading this. While we have no doubts AI can comb through and create news stories more efficiently than any human, we wonder if “unbiased” is a realistic goal. Isn’t everyone and everything biased in some way?

New Mind-reading BrainGPT Turns Thoughts into Text on Screen

Mind reading. That’s literally what this is. The ability to translate thoughts into words. In that sense, aren’t our fingers also little mind-reading sticks as they flutter across the keyboard right now, giving life to our thoughts in the form of words on a screen? We’re going to start calling our fingers mind-readers.

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