Ex-professor argues 'slowing down AI' is the wrong answer — culture change is the way out
DrCarlNassar · reddit · 2026-09-13
An author who was a tenured engineering professor and later a licensed counselor pushes back on this week's chorus of 'AI must slow down' arguments.
- Core claim: slowing down has never worked — 1980s arms-control treaties lapsed one by one, and climate targets were drilled straight past. "Slowing down is something our culture briefly visits, not something it does."
- He argues the only real exit is cultural change, and AI is paradoxically the first agent in 20,000 years capable of enabling it: humans evolved for belonging and being truly seen in small groups, which consumer culture replaced with 'work harder, acquire more.'
- His vision: four hours of AI-assisted work a day, the rest spent on relationships — a culture that regulates AI's high-risk sprint through real human contact.
He closes by asking readers: if AI took most of your work tomorrow, would you welcome more time spent in relationship?
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