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On Radical Preservation | The Point Magazine

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Our contention is that, if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts, and thus initiating a period in our own society of which it may someday be possible to say that “nothing happened.”

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. —Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” 1946 In his 2006 book Radical Hope, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear writes about what it is like to live through a period of profound cultural upheaval. His subject is the last chief of the Crow nation, Plenty Coups. Not long before his death Plenty Coups, who survived to see his tribe confined to a reservation by the U.S. government in 1884, told the story of his life to a white writer,…

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