“AI as a Normal Technology should be a vision” by June Jimenez

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 20, 2026 · 16m

"AI as a Normal Technology" (AINT), proposed as a counterweight to "AI as an Abnormal Technology" (AIAbT) makes much more sense as a prescriptive / normative framework than a descriptive one. To be clear, the fact that they could be different frameworks isn’t an entirely novel observation; the authors directly invite the distinction in their introductory piece:

The statement “AI is normal technology” is three things: a description of current AI, a prediction about the foreseeable future of AI, and a prescription about how we should treat it. We view AI as a tool that we can and should remain…