Here at DP, we are often accused of being Late Adopters. Not true; we are Early Rejecters!

For example, every member of the editorial staff at our vast mountainside scriptorium proudly carries an ancient flip phone and writes picture postcards to our global network of correspondents. Thus we shouted our collective affirmation upon reading a recent Earth Tongues posting by fellow Early Rejecter Eileen Crist, regarding use of AI.

The entire (concise & lucid) essay is worthy of close consideration; a brief excerpt below, with DP editorial emphasis in bold.

“The technosphere, defined as the total mass of all things manmade, now weighs more than all living things. It has taken over the face of the Earth and remains tenacious in its colonizing march. The technosphere has subjugated land, seas, and animals. It has smashed the atom, disassembled life, and projected itself into outer space. Now, the technosphere wants to take over, to replace, our thinking and our creative expressions; it so innocently offers to “assist in the content creation process.”

Methinks, NO. I do not want to know what AI “thinks.” I especially do not want AI to think or write for me. Additionally, I decide not to consider its input. This position is not motivated by prejudice against machines and by attachment to my cherished human distinction from them. Rather, in a world so slavish and reckless in every regard toward technology, with no evidenced capacity for either restraint or free choice, it behooves us to draw personal boundaries mindfully decided.”

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