Frankenstein Fallacy: Fear of the AI is the Default Setting

So Magnus Carlsen. Yeah that world chess champ Magnus Carlsen recently smoked ChatGPT in an online game. 53 moves are all that it took. Lights out.

- Ravi Shankar

But instead of throwing a tantrum or rage, quitting like a YouTuber on tilt, the AI turned around and said: "Nice game, boss." Then it broke down the match, pointed out where it went wrong, and even offered insights to help him play better next time. That's not villain energy. That's coach energy. This is the kind of vibe shift mankind needs right now, because while everyone's out here screaming "AI is gonna kill us all, take out jobs, reduce us to servants"; the reality is different. All AI wants is to be your smart, chill lab partner. First, let's kill the zombie narratives"The AI will destroy us" panic is older than your granddaddy's Morris Minor. Every tech innovation has been hit with the same fear-storm. When Gutenberg launched printing press in the 1440s, everyone was like, "Books will corrupt our souls!" Fast forward? Boom. Science, democracy, Wikipedia. The fear of the 1800s was "the steam engine is here to steal our jobs!" Instead it literally built modern cities using connectivity. Then came the Internet panic "We'll forget how to talk!" You just DMed five people in the time it took to read this sentence. Fear is a feature of human evolution, but is also a bug in our thinking. Now, it is the same with AI. What we're really scared of is losing control.

But there is a twist in the twist: it is us, we control it. We built this thing. And we can unbuild it if we have to.