Being High on AI — Tim Rodenbröker
AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations. Cory Doctorow Some time ago, an older friend of mine told me: “Tim, many years ago I used cocaine, once”. “How was it?” I asked. “It was that good that I will never do it again!”. He was aware of his own weaknesses. He knew that things that feel as good as cocaine are highly addictive and dangerous for him. He knew that he potencially won’t be able to stop it once he is in the spiral. And so he commited to do it never again. Drugs don’t just just make a human being feel great, but detach their perception from the actual reality, beyond the rush. Drug users can feel awesome, powerful, elevated, while freezing in a winters night under a stone-cold bridge. Lately the cocaine-story of my friend led me to a consequential insight. Isn’t working with AI very similar to using cocaine? In my own work, I have always been trying to build systems in a way that they are fu