Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Incompetence: Can We Love Ourselves?

New software on my computer, installed apparently by the computer, completes words for me as I am beginning to write them.  I have been writing for over half a century. I do not need this.  It is beyond irritating.  It appeared uninvited on my computer and apparently I now have to live with it.

After a lifetime of writing, I know how to spell. But what of the young who do not? Will they ever know how?

Will humans, afflicted with a belief in the God of AI, ever, now, learn anything on their own?Will the joy of learning itself be lost?

Humanity faces many dangers: AI is surely one of the most treacherous. It is here:  May we dedicate ourselves to loving and respecting each other as human while we can; a beautiful sunset we need not miss. ~aw

Below: With his truly slash and burn sense of humor, this teacher makes laughing while we weep not enjoyable but at least bearable. Containing as it does a grain of hope. And what is that hope based on? The possibility, globally, of waking up into awareness of what is true, whether historically or delivered yesterday in the “News”- and leaving the fake comfort of complacent ignorance – my bread is buttered – behind.”~aw