The Truth About AI

The best way to think about AI is as a meteor shower.

Several meteors have already hit—and impacted humanity in profound ways. Many more are still on their way.

What really matters, and what I believe should be the focus of most people, is:

• How do we mitigate the damage caused by the meteors that have already hit?
• How do we stop, slow down, or reduce the impact of the meteors that are still coming?

Unfortunately, what I see most often on social media, at least within my bubble, is people on one side arguing that AI isn’t actually intelligent—that it lacks critical thinking, reasoning, and so on. People on the other side argue the exact opposite.

To me, this is a distraction from the real issue.

Whether AI is “truly intelligent” or whether it has “critical thinking” is an interesting philosophical and technical debate—but it is not the most important question we should be asking right now.

This either represents an intentional shift in focus, or simply a failure to recognize what the actual problem is.