François Fleuret: In the AI era, the only freedom left is making your own suboptimal decision
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-10-18
Deep learning researcher François Fleuret offered a terse but thought-provoking take: as AI increasingly supplies the "optimal" answer to everything, the only freedom that will remain is making your own personal suboptimal decision — a wry commentary on human autonomy in an AI-mediated world.
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