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The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will'

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In the years between the two World Wars, France built The Maginot Line - a line of fortifications stretching along its eastern border. The Maginot Line was an unshakable defence; a masterpiece of military design comprising underground bunkers and armored gun turrets, with rail lines connecting garrisons. It was built to prevent the kind of trench warfare that had devastated Europe barely a generation earlier. It was, by all accounts, a perfect answer to the wrong question. Because in May 1940, German forces launched a blitzkrieg, completely avoiding the fortified zones along the Maginot Line, and moving in through the lightly defended Ardennes Forest, which the French had considered impassable. The Maginot Line stood tall through the attack. Unconquered, but also utterly useless. The Maginot Line had succeeded as engineering solution - it was impenetrable. But it had failed as a strategic response to a reconfigured system of warfare. The perfect answer to the wrong question. This solut

The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will' True, but utterly useless Sangeet Paul Choudary Apr 13, 2025 1,075 135 226 Share In the years between the two World Wars, France built The Maginot Line - a line of fortifications stretching along its eastern border. The Maginot Line was an unshakable defence; a masterpiece of military design comprising underground bunkers and armored gun turrets, with rail lines connecting garrisons. It was built to prevent the kind of trench warfare that had devastated Europe barely a generation earlier. It was, by all accounts, a perfe

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