Does anyone else feel like we’re being gaslit into accepting the implementation of AI as inevitable societal progress, and if you question that at all, you’re suddenly “anti-progress”? Lately, my Instagram reels have become an endless scroll of commencement speech after commencement speech of tone deaf AI evangelists and tech moguls claiming this to be “the next Industrial Revolution” (like Gloria Caulfield at the University of Central Florida commencement) and telling graduates to “deal with it… it’s a tool” (as Scott Borchetta did at Middle Tennessee State University commencement).

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