“It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of ‘Who Goes AI?’ And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists.

Kind, good, happy, secure people never go AI. They may be the hard-working columnist, the former blogger, the independent media entrepreneur, or the virtuosic book critic—you’ll never make sloppers out of them. But the bored pseudo-intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the fearful ink cannon, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go AI in a crisis.”

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

Who Goes AI?

An interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game.

Today in Tabs

@jalefkowit A the risk of explaining the joke, this is a riff on the famous article 'Who goes Nazi?' From 1941. In fact that's the link from the first sentence.

For anyone who's not familiar, don't miss the chillingy relevant original

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Harper's Magazine
@LyallMorrison There is also a paragraph at the end explicitly crediting that