Thinking outside the box has never been more important.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
February 23, 2026
People are understandably anxious about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. There are serious moral, economic, and social issues that arise in a world where synthetic "brains" perform jobs and make decisions in place of humans. As AI takes over social media platforms and other online repositories of human knowledge, it is unsettling to see algorithmic entities policing language and curating established "truths." The more widespread that AI becomes, the more dominant it will become in "defining" our world.