Fareed Zakaria to David Perell
“Part of how you think and how you develop your thoughts is you read and you interact. You talk to people. I could tell Gemini or ChatGPT, ‘This is exactly what I want to argue. Now make this argument and find me the sources,’ and it would be able to do it.
But the way you come to your argument is partly by reading and by talking to smart people. Part of your thinking process involves ingesting.
The AI can’t do that because you are trying to come up with your original idea. It’s like AI is producing these extraordinary suits, but they’re off-the-rack. And what I’m trying to do is really customized, boutique, handmade tailoring.
The thing AI can’t do is have the political courage and the intellectual courage to make an argument and put your name behind it. That is now becoming much, much more significant.
It’s meaningless if AI thinks one thing, right? There has to be a human being who is advocating this thing and putting his or her reputation and credibility on the line for that thing, and that… AI can never do.”