Crossed Wires: There is a nobler side to the AI hype
Daily Maverick | 28.09.2026 05:00
The drumbeat of bad-news AI stories over the past few weeks (a few of them by this writer) has been draining – a cacophony of scare stories has sucked all the oxygen out of the room. It has left many hyperventilating so miserably over hypothetical dystopian futures that there is a danger of missing the other side of the story. A rebalancing of the narrative is due.