Rage Against the Machine

This week, we are exploring one of the biggest debates of our time: AI and its impact on our civilization. Yesterday Marc Andreessen made the case that AI will save the world. Today, the brilliant Paul Kingsnorth offers the opposite view.

We want to know what you think. See you in the comments. —BW

The internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

This is an extreme statement, but I’m in an extreme mood.

If I had the energy, I suppose I could fill a hundred pages trying to prove it, but what would be the point? Whole books have been written already, and by now you either agree or you don’t. So I won’t try to prove anything. Instead I will devote this essay to asking a question that has stalked me for years.

It’s a big question, and so I’m breaking it down into four parts. What I want to know is this: what force lies behind the screens and wires of the web in which we are now entangled like so many struggling flies—and how can we break free of it?

I should warn you now that things are going to get supernatural.

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