Three AI stories today, three different anxieties. The Atlantic poses the question bluntly: Are you coal or are you a horse? Coal got more useful as technology advanced. Horses got replaced. Commonweal reaches further back — to Wittgenstein — and argues AI’s real threat isn’t to jobs but to meaning itself. And Hyperallergic asks whether artists can find an ethical path forward with tools built on their own plundered work. Different registers, same unease.
Meanwhile, the Salzburg Festival fired artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser — less than two years into a new five-year contract (AP). And the New School is planning to cut 15 percent of its faculty amid a $48 million deficit, which the AAUP is calling the largest attempted faculty firing in the country (Hyperallergic).
On a lighter note: scholars now believe the Book of Kells was made not on Iona but at another Scottish site — because Iona never had the infrastructure for it (Artnet). Thirteen centuries later, the provenance debate continues.
All of our stories below.
Till tomorrow,
Doug
