AI Agonistes

I confess, at the outset, I won’t spend as much time on this essay as I’d like. I am under pressure to finish a nonfiction book by the spring, and that eats up a lot of the time I have for more exploratory and analytical writing. Such is life; I don’t complain, and the project is exciting. What I will offer, in lieu of the many thousands of words I’d prefer to disgorge, are a few thoughts about artificial intelligence.