Digging for Truth with Next-Generation AI Tools

Is generative AI a unique new opportunity for and challenge to humanity, or simply the next step in our long history with technology?

I got my first electronic calculator in the late 1970s, when I was in high school. It was a TI-30, and it was new, and it was all the rage. You simply had to have one. Being utterly disinterested in math, I used mine to spell the words HELL and BOOBS by typing the right numbers in the right order and then holding the calculator upside-down. This was a r…