When AI gets a pass: the rise of 'AI Exceptionalism'
Here's a pattern I can't unsee:
🤖 AI threatens my profession → "This is unethical."
🤖 AI helps my profession → "This is innovation."
Journalists
AI companies
Hollywood
Universities
They all seem to make exceptions when AI benefits them.
I call it AI Exceptionalism.
It’s the belief that AI should follow different rules depending on who is using it.
To be clear, this isn’t an argument that all uses of AI are equally good. Nor is it an argument that copyright doesn’t matter, or that artists, writers, actors and educators don’t have legitimate concerns.
They absolutely do.
But if we’re going to have an honest conversation about AI, shouldn’t we try applying the same principles consistently?
Agree? Or am I completely wrong?
See four examples where AI consistency disappears remarkably quickly in the full post:
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