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Picture looks like a little BF sat on a big one.

Thanks Joel,   Sometimes I let the AI do more of the research, this time it is just ghostwriting my considered thoughts. This is a condensation of a much more extensive document, but a book is too much work. Been there, done that. Bindernagel covered a lot of this in any case, as have numerous others as you know. I think you have done a book have you not?  I thought it was a good summary of some of the main themes though.    I used to spend many times more - an order  of magnitude at least - in getting the wording right. Now, I am getting old and do not want to invest the time.  You have to know how to prompt AI, but that is an art, not a science.   I think that as more and more people use AI, they will come to regard it as just another tool, a productivity device. Of course, it is a very mysterious tool.    You have to know your topic to use it effectively. On the whole though,is it any more or less likely to be correct than most folks? People (I include myself here) self-assuredly assert a whole lot of things that just ain't so.   It has taken me decades, 1000s of hours of reading and viewing, to form my opinions on the phenomena, not having had the privilege of an encounter.   I have written a  whole lot about the benefits and pitfalls of AI use in another forum, so am not a stranger to the topic. People are being forced to reconsider the whole basis of scholarship. Many are being dragged kicking and screaming. I had a discussion of this with a professor of economics  and a high school teacher on this yesterday.  Neo-luddites both.   I do not accept the opinions of others without due consideration (theoretically at least). Ditto for AI output (theoretically at least).