# It doesn’t matter if the AI is fake, it’s all magic anyways

Source: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/it-doesnt-matter-if-the-ai-is-fake-its-all-magic-anyways
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/It-doesnt-matter-if-the-AI-is-fake-its-all-magic-anyways?index=0x66aa5cff3bd8f828ddc6c8959c430b6ed66fc546a3bcb95041ac3f4d81a599873bb78de7
Submitted by misha on 2024-07-31 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

Magical thinking accompanies today's AI boom just as it accompanied earlier technologies, according to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash, in his Substack piece "magic, online!". Susi points to historical examples such as phones that let people talk to the dead and fairies that appeared in some of the first photographs. In a podcast interview, he and the host discuss magical thinking as a coping mechanism for uncertain times, the split between AI doomers and hypemen, and why content creators are described as illusionists.

## Article

For this episode I spoke to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash who recently wrote a really interesting article on his Substack titled magic, online!. The article goes into the history of magical thinking that accompanied many of the past’s technological achievements like phones that let you talk to the dead or fairies that appeared in some of the first photographs and how today we again see magical thinking accompany AI’s proliferation.

During the interview we talk about how magical thinking acts as a coping mechanism for uncertain times, AI doomers vs hypemen, and why content creators are illusionists (sorry!).

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