There are a lot of technologies we would be better off without. I work with anthropologists who would argue, with tongue only slightly in cheek, that agriculture is such a technology. Maybe a world without computers, or the internet, or even agriculture would be a better one. Maybe it would be worse. But we don’t live in those worlds, and it doesn’t do us much good to fantasize about how much better or worse they would be. The world we do live in has computers and the internet, and is rapidly developing large language models colloquially called AI. Since this technology has such potential to do harm, it behooves us now to do as much as we can to try to minimize the harm they will do.