Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University and the author of “Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses” and “The Student: A Short History.”
Our new artificial-intelligence conversation partners, no older than toddlers, are a great deal more civil. As companies have tried to reduce fears of large language models overwhelming us with their awesome powers, they have made the tools a little too friendly. “What a good question!” my chat buddy exclaims, even though it only took seconds to provide me with a comprehensive answer.
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