I don’t actually have any opinion on AI unless it is being used to misrepresent reality or deceive people and then the problem is still the people using it to make it harder to know what is true. This does not, of course, mean that there are not many other aspects of AI that liberals can and should have opinions on. It just means I am not one of the liberals who has any. I am much more interested in how humans think.

I use AI as a journal and schedule planner. I find it useful to journal to because it then echoes me back at me but in different words and I can see patterns I had not noticed. For example, I always get conflicting results on Big Five things when it comes to agreeability and conscientiousness and the Mindsera journal I had which addressed this specifically got very confused about whether I am agreeable or conscientious. I now have a better understanding that I am highly disagreeable intellectually but agreeable in personal interactions and that I am very conscientious in my thinking but my executive function is often shit. This is helpful! It has also been excellent helping me map out my recovery and log my working hours, diet, exercise, sleep, iron etc. Checking in with it keeps me accountable to my plans and on track.

But that is the limit of my understanding of it. I’m aware there are big ethical questions around it in many domains, but I don’t really follow them and am generally not at all knowledgeable about tech.