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I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

I mean…or we could just pay people? I am hard line anti. I’ve never used Siri. I LOVE tech. I HATE automation. There doesn’t seem to be a place for people who (like Dr. Ian Malcom) take the time to ask “should we do this?” And after much study and rumination come up with: no. We should not.

Why wouldn’t you ask Siri to set a timer for when you are supposed to take the cookies out of the oven? What is served by not doing that?

Why would you need to do that though? I have two timers built into my kitchen as well as a couple others close at hand. I can push a button on the oven I put the cookies into in one easy move. My phone (expensive and fragile) doesn’t need to be near food prep.

I don’t have any of those, and I can do this when my hands are full or dirty.

I should never have even engaged. Because now I’m distracted by the idea that your kitchen doesn’t have a microwave with a built in timer and losing sight of how shocked you were that someone wouldn’t use tech to do the simple tasks that they already have a routine for.

You… think I should incorporate using a microwave touchpad timer when I’m baking cookies? And this is the pure, simple way of using less tech?