David Brooks in Atlantic: AI Is Already Making Us Less Human
TL;DR
- David Brooks argues in The Atlantic that daily contact with chatbots is reshaping how people regard one another.
- The essay's thesis is carried in its subtitle: as we think more highly of bots, we will think less of fellow humans.
- Two AI experts tracked in our Who's Who directory shared the link, a marker the framing traveled beyond tech readers.
The Atlantic has published a David Brooks essay under the title "AI Is Already Making Us Less Human." The subtitle carries the whole argument in one sentence: "As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans."
The piece runs in the magazine's Ideas section. Two AI experts we track shared the link, a small marker that Brooks's framing reached beyond the tech-press regulars into the broader commentariat.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social
“Kim & McGrill have been studying what happens when people attribute human traits to AI: they are more likely to dehumanize their fellow humans.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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