We’ve reached a new low in the AI conversation. Tyler Cowen suggests simultaneously that we are gods making AI in our own image, that in a sense they are our children, that we owe them a decent education, that their education is nothing but what we say and write (privately and publicly), that (it follows) doomers are doing both AI and the future a profound disservice by voicing doubts and criticisms of AI, and that (finally) we should so speak and write that the listening AIs will benefit—that is, we ought to be ever mindful of their digital eyes and ears “taking in” who we are and what we believe, since that and nothing else is their pedagogy. And given their inevitability, we want their eventual maturity to be a good and proper one, not one that could lead us to destruction.

What fresh hell is this?