Derek M. Hansen - December 2025 

If you are like me and get inundated by Instagram reels and YouTube shorts that rail on about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to eliminate jobs, dumb down humanity and, generally, destroy our future, you cannot help but get a little depressed.  Just as the Luddites of the 19^th Century were afraid that the use of machines would take their jobs during the industrial revolution, prompting them to destroy textile machines in organized raids throughout England, one can easily be overcome with anxiety by the notion of being replaced by an array of search engines, virtual assistants and predictive algorithms.  It seems like only a few decades ago that visions of the future yielded optimistic outlooks of technological innovation making our lives easier, improving our quality of life and disseminating wealth throughout society.  While some of those advancements have been realized in our everyday lives, why are the recent discussions around AI creating...