AI Is Not a Teacher, Let Alone a Friend – Rebecca Richards

AI Is Not a Teacher, Let Alone a Friend – Rebecca Richards

Meta recently published an ad titled, “Talk it out with Meta AI – Book Club,” where AI serves as both an event planner and literary professor within the span of 30 seconds. The ad clearly misses the irony of its own title as talking things out is the point of a book club. Cringeworthy enough on its own, the ad inspires broader concerns with turning too quickly to AI to outsource some of the most human things in life. The ad’s main character asks…