Monday, March 30, 2026

Generative AI vegetarianism | Sean Boots

A bookshelf in our house with a line of cookbooks in various colours. Vegetarian cookbooks like Meera Sodha’s “East”, Priya Krishna’s “Indian-ish”, and Anna Jones’ “A modern way to cook” feature prominently.

There is a whole industry, a lot of money and political power, behind the push to put generative AI tools in front of everyone. It makes our society more fragile and, cumulatively, it makes us worse people.

We can do better. Generative AI vegetarianism isn’t much, but it’s a small and useful step.