Is the rise of AI inevitable? First, it's important to note that "AI" is a largely marketing term. Actual artificial intelligence is far beyond our reach at this point. That being said, it's also important to make the distinction between two types of "AI" being widely used today. Traditional, or discriminative, AI is very useful for analytical and predictive tasks. It's been used for decades in medicine, security, science, and technology. When you hear about AI being used to

I was scrolling on my personal Instagram when I came across a post by a small business account I follow urging other businesses to stop using AI to write their captions and create their posts. The point she was making was that using AI takes away from the sense of connection. You wouldn't use AI to talk to your friends, and it's uncomfortable when strangers use it to talk to you. By using ChatGPT or another LLM to create your social media posts, you're gaining time and effici

Disclosure: I started writing this blog post on Saturday, January 3, 2026, and so much has happened since then. The Stranger Things ending has become such a telling online social experiment. (I have to clarify that it's "online" because none of the conversations I've had with people in real life about this ending contained the amount of vitriol and disappointment that I've been seeing in online discourse). I really believe that we as a society are becoming way too uncomforta