[The end of 2025 means another Year in Review blog series, AmericanStudying a handful of the year’s biggest stories. I’d love your 2025 reflections in comments!]
I wrote
about ChatGPT and other generative AI programs as part
of last year’s Year in Review series, and would say that every experience I’ve
had with AI in the year since has only deepened every part of what I said there
about its worst elements and effects. We’ve also learned a great deal more over
this last year about AI’s horrifically destructive potential, from what data
centers do to communities and the environment
to what chatbots
do to individuals to what AI
is doing to education (to cite just four specific stories about just a few
of the many issues I could highlight). And yet just about every day I see or
hear or read or encounter folks—most of them folks I know and trust and often
love—talking about using ChatGPT and other AI programs in casual and consistent
(if not indeed constant) ways. So unfortunately I think I need to include AI in
this year’s Year in Review series as well, as we desperately need a full and
honest conversation about what this new technology is doing, and whether and
how we can (at the very least) stop its further growth.
Next
reflections tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? 2025 stories you’d highlight?
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