Reader Responses to The Future of AI

This captured my attention as someone who has spent the past year in sustained dialogue with AI. Kebudi’s emphasis on AI as a catalyst for reexamining what “human” intelligence is—its limits, its mechanisms, its blind spots—parallels precisely what I found while writing my book, A Serious Chat with Artificial Intelligence. What struck me was Kebudi’s insistence that AI’s significance lies not in its theatrical predictions of transcendence or doom, but in how it acts as a mirror. In my own conversations with advanced [LLMs], I was reminded that these systems, however dazzling, lack awareness—and yet they can illuminate the mechanistic, pattern-driven aspects of our own thinking. As I argue in the book, “AI teaches us not only what it can do, but what in ourselves is more than a pattern.” Kebudi’s refusal to treat AI as magic aligns with the spirit of inquiry I hope still defines Brown.