AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp

If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not betterAs much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to automation: it’s nice that computers have made some boring things in our lives less boring.I side with the writer and philosopher John Gray, who in his terrifying work of eco-nihilism Straw Dogs balances the fact that human beings are a