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A Reflection on Using AI

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Michael Foster
May 20, 2025
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AI is a powerful, but dangerous, tool. In many ways, it’s the tool of tools, the most significant we’ve ever created. And yet, we’re still reeling from the effects of earlier tools: industrialization, the automobile, even the mortgage. Each of them changed our way of life, for better and for worse.

Tools are never neutral. They carry the assumptions, pur…

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