Whither Goes the Human in All We Create?

On the binding act of dehumanization behind all this year's failures for our kind

There’s a well-known line from Futurama that might be considered a bit spicy for some readers, but which came immediately to mind when I read year-end coverage of Meta’s next big ridiculous move with generative AI: the integration of more artificial accounts as “users” of Facebook and Instagram.

In “The Series Has Landed” (1999), a foul-mouthed robot nam…