Reader's View: Buy books before AI erases them

I agreed with the Oct.31 letter, “Delay deployment of artificial intelligence.” Here are some more stats: According to the Child Protection League, 64% of U.S. teens use AI chatbots, including help with homework. Knowledge is now something to be found, not learned or known. Asking ChatGPT, OpenAI, and others if they are programmed to be value-neutral, they respond they are not because they are programmed by people who are not value-neutral (primarily atheists, secular humanists, and transhumanists). Some AI simulations have gone rogue and seem to be scheming in order to accomplish programmed goals, the Child Protection League determined. Stock up on printed books. Some companies engage in “destructive scanning,” according to the league, buying up printed books, even rare and out-of-print books, ripping off their bindings, scanning their pages and then destroying them. If there is no original hard copy, AI’s version becomes the new truth.

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