Thursday, May 14, 2026

AI is our generation's radium

 --- Nick Pettigrew on Bluesky via New Scientist's Feedback column, 25 Feb 2025

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.