This Unpublished 2015 Column Predicted 2023 Fears About Chatbots and the Work Sponsored by Elon Musk at OpenAI

Retro readers get to see a major-media column on Earth’s near-term dystopian future that was written days before Musk’s OpenAI—later, the creator of ChatGPT—was even founded.

May 19, 2023

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Introduction

Between 2013 and 2015, I was a cultural theorist working on my doctorate in English at University in Wisconsin-Madison, preparing to apply for tenure-track positions at colleges and universities across the country in one of the most competitive academic submarkets there is. (There are—you may know—exponentially more PhDs in English than open…

This Unpublished 2015 Column Predicted 2023 Fears About Chatbots and the Work Sponsored by Elon Musk at OpenAI

Retro readers get to see a major-media column on Earth’s near-term dystopian future that was written days before Musk’s OpenAI—later, the creator of ChatGPT—was even founded.

Introduction

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