This is written by the president of Mozilla, which important context I think.

Honestly, to me, it’s a worthy talking point in general, though it reads to me like a fantasy.

Which isn’t to mention that the issues they cite with AI may be intrinsic to the technology itself (and you can’t just sculpt historical metaphors however you like), and that what utility some have found with it may also have intrinsic issues or be, in part at least, attempts to patch over the ways in which technology/world has gotten shit (which is maybe the problem that should be solved).