"An AI superfan is going to gush about chatbots and go on, at length, about how "These things just seem to know everything." The dinner table's funnyman will play a highly cringe video they made with the technology. Someone else will either be flummoxed or horrified. A proud guest will declare a vow of abstinence-in fact, they've never even used ChatGPT, they will reveal. One self-important guest will feel very smart when recounting the time they caught an AI making a mistake, once."
"These conversations will be bad. There will be camps: the Luddites, the accelerationists, the skeptics, and the 85-year-old ChatGPT power users. There will be the extant Elon evangelists, the people who are very tuned in, and the people who have not been paying attention to any of this. Conversations will touch on both the anticipation and the terror of the tech. The economy. The tech oligarchy. The environment. The bubble. No one will really be talking to each other. Not in any meaningful sense."
Thanksgiving gatherings will feature polarized and often frustrating conversations about artificial intelligence, with superfans, skeptics, pranksters, abstainers, and self-important critics all speaking loudly. Topics will include excitement over chatbots, viral AI videos, economic impact, tech oligarchy, environmental concerns, and fears of a bubble. These conversations frequently fail to produce mutual understanding because participants mean different things by "AI." For some it means hyperscaled data centers and transformer models; for others it means consumer-facing models like Sonnet 4.5 or Grok 3, or named agents such as Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude. People should still have these conversations for the human connection that emerges amid tension and care.
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