Steven Johnson on Eagleman podcast: LLM averageness helps society but threatens creativity
stevenbjohnson · x · 2026-11-14
Steven Johnson, historian of innovation and co-creator of Gemini Notebook, joins neuroscientist David Eagleman's podcast to explore where your mind ends and AI begins. The key tension they discuss: LLMs' socially positive tendency toward the average/consensus may benefit society, yet that very predictability poses a challenge to human creativity — and who gets credit when AI supplies the crucial connection for an idea?
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