“Dear Paul Kingsnorth,
Too late to wish you the best of luck. Sorry. The game’s over: AI won.”
This morning my inbox revealed the fulfillment of a dream by Paul Kingsnorth, the author of his latest best-seller Against the Machine. Our son gave me a copy of it for Christmas, and I’ve dutifully begun reading it. In the book, he praises the Luddites of past centuries, and seems to have adopted much of that worldview for himself.
But today, my inbox revealed that he has apparently gone totally over the edge. His latest essay, entitled “Writers Against AI“ reveals a fully-bonkers Luddite view:
Of course, this is my parody of his totally nonsensical and impossible worldview: AI is already deeply imbedded in all his work; indeed, very likely in most of his daily life. He certainly uses a word processor with spell-checking, posts his articles on the internet, uses email, electronic funds transfers, and most likely uses a smartphone, text messaging, and other digital assistance.
My background in IT…
