Abdullah Mahmood
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Article: The silicon god delusion

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AI’s effect so far on macro measures like productivity and employment are so subtle that are barely visible, but maybe Stripe is ahead of the curve? Maybe the top-down view hides an explosive underswell of algo-assisted entrepreneurism?

Or maybe there’s a generation of entrepreneurs who've caught AI brain. Chatbots are the C-suite’s ultimate yes-men — able to buttress egos by condensing information their users don’t care to fully understand while avoiding questions they don’t want to consider. They’ll never say the plan is dumb.

Every sentence carries the dead weight of AI generation — though honestly, it's not clear that an algorithm was involved in the composition. Where to draw the line on what's artificial is no longer obvious. There's been a melding of minds. We look from tech-bro to chatbot, and from chatbot to tech-bro, but already it is impossible to say which is which.