The New York Times has an Ethicist column, because of course it does. Its readers like to think of themselves as very Ethical. Socrates would have hated Trump, too. A recent Ethicist entry: “My Partner’s Dependence on Chatbots Is Becoming a Problem. How Do I Tell Him?”
Some variant of this appears in every agony-aunt column. In nearly every instance, it’s a female who is watching with alarm as her guy — who, in your mind’s eye, is a pear-shaped man wearing a fedora and a “Han Shot First” T-shirt — turns to AI for entertainment and decision-making. Like this:
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