Anti AI? Be Pro Human!

This is the fifth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: the joys of imperfection Do we really need the latest tech My e-reader made me a worse reader Not everything needs to be in the cloud The inspiration for this post came to me in three ways. Yesterday, I had a short talk with Rishi, he asked me what a better way of saying “anti big tech”, and I responded “pro human”. Soon after that interaction, I watched a video that depressed me and made me want to write ten angry blog posts. Then this morning I read this post by Wulfric on Mastodon. All this had me thinking: I’ve felt so much hatred of AI and how tech companies copy all human creativity to their servers and destroy so much (books, for example) in the process. That hatred costs me energy that I already have so little of. So it really doesn’t help me (nor anyone else for that matter). Instead of wasting energy raging against AI, vow to do something else. I vow to be Pro Human…