Should AI replace human journalists?

We need to understand not only what we gain but what we lose when technology does things instead of a human.

This one’s mine.

In the midst of a Hulu rewatching cycle, an ad came on that showed a man playing a game in a virtual reality. He was engrossed to the point of ignoring the real world, including his real-life partner, who was just steps away.

The ad ended by panning out to show you that this guy's game-mate lives in the apartment next door. The implication is that they have never met in real life and probably never will. Their friendship will exist only in the virtual world.

The ad was for VR headsets. The company thought the world they created in the ad depicted something I wanted. There's nothing — let me repeat nothing — about the world depicted in the ad that I want. In fact, it downright depressed me.

Given VR's sluggish rise, I like to believe that there are other people like me opting to spend their time in the real world instead of increasing the time they spend in the digital world permeating from our screens.

Contrast VR with the meteoric rise of generative AI. There's something …