What I've learned from this inspiring op-ed is that I have the ability to choose the reality I live in. I can choose to live in a reality in which AI is not a potent extinction risk just like a dinosaur living 66 million years ago could have chosen not to be dinosaur or to be a dinosaur if that is what he really wanted to be, but to choose a career path that insulates him from the effects of meteor strikes and other causes of extinctions while making his parents proud by getting a prestigious high-paying job at one of the fast-growing large companies ever.
Can we please deflect the meteor so that it does not arrive on our planet?
This is a linkpost for my Harvard Crimson op-ed for its commencement issue.
I will not reproduce the whole text here, but my advice to the class of 2026 is in the following parts: