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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…

Kevin Roose@kevinroose.com

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

To be fair, there have been many prominent people who have told me directly and repeatedly that AI is useless and they think I'm crazy/stupid for believing otherwise.

It’s both useful (I love having copilot generate meeting notes!) AND completely useless (Gemini told me to burn down my home just last week). Figuring out what it’s good at is also a skill set. (The bad AI:

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Yeah. I use Gemini as a sort of Google archive search (since it doesn't have live info as such) that generally doesn't give me a bunch of garbage results, although it certainly does sometimes miss good answers or is just wrong. But with citations! But it's not my buddy or my advisor. No thanks.