AI Doublespeak Is Collapsing
Graduates See What the Elites Won’t Admit In April, I wrote that AI is a tool, Marian — channeling Alan Ladd’s Shane to remind everyone that technology itself is morally neutral. A gun, an axe, a shovel: it becomes good or bad based on the character and incentives of the person wielding it. That piece pushed back against fatalistic UBI talk and the notion that AI would simply “wipe out” work rather than transform it through markets, adaptation, and human ingenuity. This follow-up is necessary because the people holding the tool are currently engaged in a glaring contradiction that cannot last.…