Aug. 19, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: It will be simple to conclude that contributing author Matt Lewis is simply too younger to have learn the heavyweight press within the Seventies, when the media had simply found the microchip (“AI will be more disruptive than COVID. Which party can seize the moment?,” Aug. 15). He would have learn limitless screeds about what number of tens of millions can be put out of labor, with their expertise on the junk heap, agonizing over how we are going to ever fill these limitless hours of leisure.
It didn’t occur. And but our recollections are so brief that once more we discover acres of newsprint full of the declarations of pundits telling us that many extra tens of millions of jobs will probably be worn out by the irresistible energy of synthetic intelligence. We have to face the truth that the potential of AI to take over our every day life is grossly exaggerated. That is already changing into apparent. Simply be aware of the variety of court cases which were thrown out as a result of the citations dug up by AI have been nonsense. A major study on youngsters’s well being promoted by the Division of Well being has been proven to be based mostly on references collected by AI which might be both nonexistent or fatally flawed.
The information on which AI bases its pronouncements is all revealed info. A lot of it’s misinformation. The concept massive language fashions will be capable of be taught to inform the distinction is pie within the sky.
Rory Johnston, Hollywood
This author is a co-author of the 1985 guide “The Information Machine: Synthetic Intelligence and the Way forward for Man.”
