Superhuman intelligence will not arrive in the next generation of large models and is highly unlikely to arrive any time soon, so it will not help us face the crisis now occurring. Yet, this crisis will produce real change. We need ideas to guide that change. As Corey Doctorow says, “Milton Friedman was wrong, but he wasn’t wrong about this.” Large AI models as a social and cultural technology and cybernetics management are among the best ideas lying around. Let’s take them up and see what change we can make.
