60-Year-Old Redditor Explains How AI Slowly Won Him Over
rnk6670 · reddit · 2026-09-05
A 60-year-old Reddit user writes a thoughtful account of slowly turning pro-AI: after paying for ChatGPT for just one month, he found himself having dozens of deep conversations with Gemini about video games that drifted into esoteric topics. He still worries about data center resource use and long-term societal impact, but sees AlphaFold's solution of the 50-year protein folding problem and aging research as mind-blowing. He now uses AI as an instant conversational gaming advisor and concludes the good potential outweighs the dark side: "So I'm in."
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