A New Renaissance
People by Ned Axthelm We are on the cusp of something big. New technologies are on the rise. War is becoming pervasive. Politics are gaining heat. I cannot tell the future, but it is likely that, no matter what happens, AI will be part of it. This could go one of three ways. Either, as I suggested last week , the AI industry sees no profitable return within the next fifteen years and crumbles from the inside. Americans realize how useless it is, stop engaging if they haven't already, and the Altman reign falls. The 51% of Americans who do not use AI continues to rise, and eventually, we will return to a more human-oriented society. The second, currently dismal, option is that AI begins to benefit our society, and we rise into a tech-supported utopia. AI cures cancer, or invents a new kind of communism that will actually work, or removes universal corruption. AI achieves a deistic level of power and actually uses it for good. Society is cured of all evils, and we get to live...
