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My (complicated) relationship with AI: often seductive, occasionally frustrating and always demanding vigilance | Setareh Seyedghorban

The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1, news) 2026-09-23T15:00:52.000Z Original ↗

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Existential and catastrophic riskHuman agency and epistemicsConcentration of power
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As a multilingual academic, artificial intelligence has levelled the playing field. But I will continue to think, judge and develop ideas that are stubbornly mine I am walking between carriages in search of a cup of tea on a train travelling over 100 miles an hour from Liverpool to London when I see half the people in my carriage in deep conversations with a machine: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to name a few. I am meant to be on sabbatical, the rare stretch of academic life reserved for slow thinking. Around me, almost nobody is thinking slowly. This is not limited to a train carriage. Half of the adults surveyed in one US study reported using an AI chatbot, one example of how fast people are entering a relationship with their AI tools, which now receive more of our questions, problems and drafts than our friends and colleagues do. Continue reading...

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Llama 3.3 70BMetaanalysis 0 60%3246ms v1.0.0 / m1.0.1 2026-09-23 15:18
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The article presents a mixed view of AI, highlighting both benefits and concerns.

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SOURCE     The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1)
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           https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/24/my-complicated-relationship-with-ai-chatgpt-factchecking
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