https://vegasharmon.com/authors/meghan-houser/ Recent content in Meghan Houser on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/ai-cannot-show-us-something-new/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/ai-cannot-show-us-something-new/ Is the new AI a useful tool? Yes, a tool with many uses. It can help us code faster and be our concierge, our stenographer, and so on. It can turn the value-neutral dials technology has manned since the Industrial Revolution: efficiency, automation. But to answer Paul Ford’s old question: What can this thing do, what is it promising, that isn’t just an optimized version of already extant processes? Its promise is to finally personalize the Algorithm — to fix all its alienation factors, to make it the thing that gives us what we really want.