I think that A.I.s are going to teach us more about being human. Because we’re going to see what not quite human is like and become more and more acquainted with the difference. ~ Stewart Brand
As Klein notes Brand was a leader in the countercultural information wars, long before Google and AI arrived, with his publication “The Whole Earth Catalog” which helped those who saw their task as young adults in the late 60s and 70s as “reinventing civilization”.
Then he segued into the new empowerment of personal computers, which some might see as a radical departure from DIY tools, but in the early days PCs were imagined as something everyone would “program for”.
Brand published Co-evolution Quarterly which was partly inspired by Gregory Bateson‘s ideas, and now with Klein he’s still talking about tools as empowerment and evolving. As noted in the GPT takeaway analysis of the Klein/ Brand interview transcript, one might easily see AI as yet another set of DIY tools with maximum scope and depth of information.
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