CONCLUSION: AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE 21st CENTURY eading between the lines of text that LLMs like GPT-4 R instantly generate, people see very different visions of the future. Some see incredible algorithmic levers for change; a new way to merge, remix, transmute, and apply the aggregate power of human intelligence across everything we as humans do. Others see tragedies, both great and granular: major job dis- placement across multiple industries; appropriation of intellec- tual property without explicit consent; a depressed person who, after consulting an LLM, commits suicide. If a technology is truly revolutionary—if it’s destined to achieve the scale of fire, say, or the wheel, or even just the bathtub— then every person making predictions in that technology’s early days, whether utopian or apprehensive or in the middle, is Nos- tradamus. Sooner or later, they’re going to be at least anecdot- ally right. So yes, great things are coming with AI. And yes, bad things are coming with AI. I bring this up now simply to ask: where do you want to focus? 210