Ihave a big-picture theory about artificial intelligence and the flow of useful information — a theory that is either the product of 66 years of hard-earned experience or, more likely, the confused musings of a CBD-addled retiree: The population of the Earth, if not just the United States, has grown to the point where we simply can’t understand it in a holistic way anymore, and that’s how AI wins.

Oh, we can grasp pieces of the big picture, and people smarter than I am can even create positive change in limited doses. But we live in a vast web of complexity that has stretched the gossamer of useful information too thin. It’s not that useful information isn’t there, it’s that the interference — like the fuzzy noise we occasionally got back in the day with over the air TV reception — makes

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