THE FIVE STAGES OF AI GRIEF

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Benjamin Bratton, the director of the Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute and a professor at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the global reaction to artificial intelligence as a “Copernican Trauma," equating it with past shifts that have redefined humanity's self-perception. Bratton proposes five stages of "AI grief" — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — to frame societal responses to AI's evolution, from skepticism to integration into our understanding of intelligence. He argues that the integration of AI reflects a broader biological and technological evolutionary process, rather than a distinctively human narrative.