The AI Great Leap Forward (a warning)

“Expertise was irrelevant. Conviction was sufficient.”

I came across a piece by Lee Han Chung that offers a rather sobering frame for today’s AI moment: The AI Great Leap Forward

The title is not casual. It points directly to China’s Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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That effort was ambitious, fast-moving, and highly visible. It was also deeply performative. Lo…