We’re told men are in crisis. AI is going to make it so much worse.
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Men, you may have heard, are in crisis. The causes are many, and the left and right identify different villains (toxic masculinity, according to the former; feminism and gynecocracy, says the latter). But there seems to be a growing consensus that something is rotten in man-land. And across the political spectrum there is at least a consensus that male despair and disconnect is fueled in large part by dramatic changes in society, the economy, and the family—all of which have left many men feeling dangerously unmoored, isolated, and purposeless.
Despite frustrated men rallying behind a president who promises to restore them (and America) to their former glory, a peek over the tech horizon doesn’t suggest a golden age for the postfeminist American male. If anything, A.I.—a force already changing work, education, research, romance, and even the human brain—seems virtually guaranteed to magnify today’s boy problems into a full-blown man-sized catastrophe.
If we are collectively concerned about the well-being of men—and those of us on the left and right alike should be concerned—then we need to grapple with the many ways A.I. is set to supercharge male loneliness, aimlessness, isolation, illness, malaise, and deadly rage, to the detriment of us all.
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