Dave Eggers Warns AI Could Leave Humans “Cooked as a Species,” Joins 2 Anthropic Lawsuits
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 27
Dave Eggers Warns AI Could Leave Humans “Cooked as a Species,” Joins 2 Anthropic Lawsuits
2 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 27
Summary
Dave Eggers said AI in writing and classrooms poses an existential threat, arguing that once machines generate ideas and prose for people, “you’re cooked as a species.”
Two class action lawsuits now include Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida, who accuse Anthropic of using their books without authorization to train large language models.
Eggers said the danger is already reaching children, citing students as young as 10 who use AI for ideas and criticizing US education policy that promotes AI even for five-year-olds.
At 56, the novelist tied that warning to a broader defense of human-made art, saying there is “no such thing as AI art” and predicting a backlash against more screens and machine-written culture.