A Lyft driver summed up AI's value in two lines, argues comms strategist
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-21
Garrison Lovely shares a conversation with a Haitian Lyft driver named Didi: asked about AI, Didi said "when people who don't know things use it to learn things, that's good"—and on replacing humans, "that would be bad!" Lovely concludes the AI comms problem isn't that complicated: ordinary people intuitively separate learning uses from replacement uses. Lovely's book Obsolete covers AI's impact on jobs among other risks.
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