In Defense of Humans

In 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre acidly penned the line “Hell is other people” without the benefit of ever having visited a water park.

Nonetheless, “other people” are taking a beating these days. In an interview with the New York Times’ Ross Douthat last week, billionaire techno-futurist Peter Thiel struggled to answer whether he thinks humanity should continue to exist, as artificial intelligence continues to gobble up more of our brain activity.