Dogmatic belief
Gina Chua, executive director of the Tow-Knight Center (and executive editor of Semafor), with a sweepy post on the journalism industry's contorted view of AI's potential. She makes a lot of great points but my takeaway was this:
If the starting point of the debate is what-can-humans-do-better-than-machines, rather than what-does-the-public-we-serve-need, then we’ll end up prioritizing ensuring we have jobs, rather than ensuring we serve communities well.
That’s also an overstatement, of course; and I’ve written many times about the multiple roles I believe humans need to play in the coming information landscape.
But the fundamental issue is a dogmatic belief that machines can’t surpass us, in the face of a body of evidence that they already do in a range of processes.