This is The Guardian.
Today, why Rutger Bregman thinks you should quit ChatGPT.
A lot of people were skeptical about ChatGPT when it launched back in November 2022.
But not Rutger Bregman.
I was in complete awe.
I was working at a Dutch journalism platform called The Correspondent at the time.
And my colleague showed it to me and I was like,
this is the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my whole life.
The Dutch historian and author was an immediate convert.
I mean, it very quickly replaced Google for simple requests.
It started to become very useful as a brainstorm partner.
Rutger thinks AI is going to change everything.
It does feel like AI is forcing us to raise and answer the most profound questions about what it means to be human.
And it has only just begun.
I think we are about to enter the five wildest years of human history.
But he is deeply concerned about the direction the industry is going in.
Because AI is now not just helping you do your admin.
It's now doing some of the US government's dirtiest jobs.
For the first time ever, the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence to scope targets.
What used to take weeks of planning was compressed into just hours.