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T<\/span>here\u2019s an apocryphal story of automation in the 1500s that runs as follows. The Reverend William Lee, an English inventor, studies the movements involved in knitting and builds a machine to imitate them. It works; with his \u201cstocking frame,\u201d laborers can sew socks with a fraction of the time and skill required before. Excited, Lee brings his device to Queen Elizabeth and asks for the Crown\u2019s support. But Elizabeth denies him: \u201cConsider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects,\u201d she says. \u201cIt would assuredly bring them to ruin by denying them employment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Or perhaps she doesn\u2019t say that at all; records of the encounter are hard to come by, and their veracity is questionable. But the sentiment \u2014 that technological progress will destroy human society \u2014 is evergreen. We hear it in the nineteenth-century <\/span>Medical Record<\/span><\/i>, which warned that the telegraph would lead to an \u201cincrease in nervous disease \u2026 made by the conditions of modern life upon the brain.\u201d An earlier version appears in Plato\u2019s <\/span>Phaedrus <\/span><\/i>\u2014<\/span> learning to read, he says, will:<\/span><\/p>

create forgetfulness in the learners\u2019 souls, because they will not use their memories \u2026 you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>

The webcomic <\/span>Dresden Codak<\/span><\/i>\u00a0imagines the objection a step farther: an innovative caveman demonstrates a flaming torch or sharp rock, while his fellows disapprovingly grunt, \u201cYou am play gods!\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Today, generative artificial intelligence \u2014 genAI \u2014 is the most popular guess for the doom of civilization. Predictions for its future use range from the merely disastrous (the <\/span>New York Times: <\/span><\/i>\u201cSilicon Valley is bracing for a permanent underclass\u201d) to the outright apocalyptic (Eliezer Yudkowsky\u2019s book <\/span>If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies<\/span><\/i>). Even Dario Amodei, CEO of Claude-creator Anthropic, predicted in an <\/span>Axios<\/span><\/i>\u00a0interview that we might face a future where \u201ccancer is cured \u2026 and 20% of people don\u2019t have jobs.\u201d (Of course, for a tech giant that\u2019s as much a marketing pitch as it is a warning; as computational pioneer John von Neumann said, \u201cSome people confess guilt to take credit for the sin.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>

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Claims of disaster may be ever-present; that does not make them all <\/span>wrong<\/span><\/i>. Technology disrupts \u2014 by its very nature, it breaks things. It\u2019s probably true that the 1590s were not a great time to be a veteran stocking maker, nor the early 1900s to be a horse and buggy supplier. The practitioners of these fields could justly complain that no one asked their permission before making their professions obsolete. And Plato was right, too: it\u2019s harder to make the case for oral memory when everyone can read.<\/span><\/p>

So suppose we accept all the modern critiques of technology. Many of them are clearly true: yes, obesity is rampant, thanks in part to the move from hands-on labor to sedentary office jobs. Our children are screen-obsessed, and our teenagers struggle with neuroses born of social media. Technological advances contribute to illnesses both physical and psychological, political fragmentation, and personal disconnection. And AI seems poised to unleash new problems \u2014 deepfaked pornography, say, or threats to arts and literature. Isn\u2019t that the end of civilization?<\/span><\/p>

Well \u2014 compared to what?<\/span><\/p>

The tricky part in declaring civilizational decline is to identify the point we\u2019re declining <\/span>from<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2014 and then to consider all the changes, good and bad. Tech proponents famously neglect the latter; \u201clearn to code\u201d was a catchy slogan in the 2010s, but it was a callous response to unemployment and genuine suffering. But it\u2019s easy to ignore the positives as well. Queen Elizabeth (or her fictional stand-in) might have been right about the stocking frame\u2019s immediate impact on textile workers, but their successors ultimately benefited as well. (How many people in hosiery today would voluntarily return to sixteenth-century wages?) For those of us on the purchasing end, the tradeoffs are simpler; automation is the reason that \u201cbuying nice socks\u201d is a Walmart afterthought and not a once-a-year splurge.<\/span><\/p>

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The other critiques balance out similarly. Written cultures may not encourage memorization like oral ones do, but they\u2019re vastly superior at communicating and preserving information. Our calorie-rich and exercise-poor lifestyles are terrible for us; are they worse than the rampant starvation they replaced? We all felt how \u201cthin\u201d digital connections could be during the pandemic lockdowns \u2014 but would we have been less isolated <\/span>without <\/span><\/i>Zoom and FaceTime?<\/span><\/p>

There\u2019s a pattern here in which technology replaces mandatory ills with voluntary ones. If you have no food, you <\/span>will<\/span><\/i> starve; if you have too much, you <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> overeat. Dying of typhus or smallpox wasn\u2019t a choice, while compulsively scrolling a media timeline is. For that matter, nothing prevents you from memorizing <\/span>The Iliad<\/span><\/i>\u00a0or knitting a pair of stockings \u2014 technology doesn\u2019t remove these options from us. Rather, it offers us new, more enticing ones, and we too often choose the treat over the work.<\/span><\/p>

And so back to AI. My students struggle with digital temptation on a daily basis; more honestly, I struggle alongside them. <\/span>It\u2019s hard to motivate mastering a skill \u2014 writing, painting, programming \u2014 when the computer can effortlessly outperform a beginner.<\/span> We wrestle with formative tasks, while a button marked \u201cDo this for me\u201d is persistently just a few clicks away.<\/span><\/p>

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That\u2019s the real danger, I think, to our picture of civilization. The threat is not that AI will eliminate all our jobs and leave us to sit with folded hands, unable to find any fruitful labor. Automation has been a growing presence for at least 400 years, and for all the work we\u2019ve assigned to the machine, we have yet to run short of things that need to be done. Instead, we\u2019ve discovered new things to do, and it\u2019s become affordable to mass-produce what was once the provenance of kings.<\/span><\/p>

We can see that progression in my own discipline of computer science. Since its inception, the trend has been for computer programming to become faster, easier, and more accessible: from hand-coded binary, to punch cards, to modern English-like programming languages. With each transition, programmers have written less code to accomplish more. If automation means the demise of work, the number of practitioners in the field should have dwindled with every step. Instead, it\u2019s grown: easier software means more calls for software, which means more jobs. If generative AI reverses this trend, it\u2019ll be the first time.<\/span><\/p>

The danger, then, isn\u2019t that there will be no work; the danger is that we won\u2019t want it.<\/span> Call it unhealthy dopamine reward structures, call it corrupted human nature, but the problem is the same \u2014 if our culture slides into decline, it won\u2019t be because AI forced that on us, but because we considered the options and decided on sloth. We <\/span>choose<\/span><\/i>, too often,<\/span> not<\/span> to do the hard things.<\/span><\/p>

But we could do them.<\/span><\/p>

One of the great gifts of technological progress has been <\/span>time. <\/span><\/i>A peasant might have the genius of Einstein or the talent of Shakespeare, but if the wheat fields demand attention from sunup to sundown, it doesn\u2019t much matter; there\u2019s no room left to utilize those skills. Overwhelmingly, the discoveries and cultural achievements that come down to us are the product of a privileged few \u2014 the people who could spend moments on more than mere survival.<\/span><\/p>

With automation, we put boundaries on work \u2014 <\/span>these <\/span><\/i>days for <\/span>those<\/span><\/i>\u00a0hours, and the rest of our time freed for rest or education or simple thought. We democratized creativity, or at least the opportunity for it. The result was a century of unprecedented innovation, creating new forms of media, scaling heights that were literally astronomical. We have more art today than any other time in history; if there\u2019s more dross than ever before, there\u2019s more gold as well.<\/span><\/p>

AI could extend these possibilities \u2014 this <\/span>leveling<\/span><\/i>\u00a0of opportunity \u2014 once again. In its simplest mode, generative AI serves as an expert on tap. It can be a tutor for the student in poverty, a translator for the harried employee, an idea board for the entrepreneur struggling to brainstorm. In many cases, it can do so for free.<\/span><\/p>

But these are the surface; the options now are well beyond \u201cclever chatbot.\u201d With <\/span>agentic <\/span><\/i>AI, we have an increasing ability to set the computer to real work: make this video, organize these files, build me the shell of that application. That\u2019s a shorter path between \u201cidea\u201d and \u201cexistence\u201d than we\u2019ve ever known. We <\/span>will<\/span><\/i>\u00a0discover new talents this way \u2014 new thinkers, new directors, new innovators in artistic expression \u2014 that would have otherwise gone unnoticed for simple lack of opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And beyond that, AI opens opportunities for better life. The Christian theologian Abraham Kuyper described a category of \u201ccommon grace\u201d \u2014 gifts like fire or honest government, that provide for human welfare or constrain destructive forces. Surely genAI fits this category. In the last five years, we\u2019ve seen it used to detect early-onset cancer, fold proteins for custom-tailored medication, and read scrolls so fragile they can never be unrolled. AI-driven cars reportedly see 90 percent fewer accidents. AI-assisted tax returns discover thousands of dollars in missed benefits. These are the first fruits; there\u2019s potential here to promote human flourishing that would be as shocking now as our relative longevity might have been to Elizabethan England.<\/span><\/p>

The catch, once again, is that every common grace has its abuse: fire burns houses as easily as kindling, governments established in justice succumb to tyranny. AI <\/span>could<\/span><\/i> mean the end of conveying real skill in education. It <\/span>could<\/span><\/i>\u00a0lead to generations lost in indolence and virtual pleasures. It could be the last real innovation; human progress could end, not under the skeletal heel of a Terminator, but in the soporific comfort of a gaming chair.<\/span><\/p>

To avoid that path will require work, from those of us laboring now as much as from the generations that come after. It\u2019ll mean rebuilding educational strategies to avoid (or incorporate) computerized shortcuts. It will demand we rethink hiring approaches: how do we train up new human experts, knowing that the computer outperforms our novices for their first few years? In many cases, it will necessitate discovering reflective human work that sits <\/span>above <\/span><\/i>the AI, answering not merely \u201ccan you make these things?\u201d but \u201chow ought they to be made?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Creating a culture that pursues these ends will be difficult, but we<\/span> can choose to encourage it \u2014 in our families, our workplaces, our communities.<\/span> If we don\u2019t, if our civilization slides into indolence and ruin, it won\u2019t be something the machine did to us; it\u2019ll be our choice to abazndon the hard and good things in favor of the quick hit. <\/span>The fault, dear friends, is not in our chatbots, but in ourselves.<\/span> And perhaps it\u2019s there \u2014 in forcing us to confront that truth \u2014 that AI offers both the greatest terror and the most important gift.<\/span><\/p>

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