This Skier Is Making a Case for Eschewing Technology

Ross Douthat, the regular conservative New York Times columnist, recently sat down with researcher Daniel Kokotajlo to chat AI on his Times-affiliated podcast. And, while the future is still yet to play out, Kokotajlo’s predictions are beyond bleak. While most of us in the writing world are bemoaning how Google’s AI search distills our hours of work into small, digestible snippets, or perhaps even wonder if someday soon all writing–including of the outdoor canon–will be d