LETTER: AI is all the scare

Letter Warns Against AI Fearmongering, Urges Rational Response September 16, 2026 - 9:00 pm Randy Kornfield Henderson, in a letter dated September 16, 2026, at 9:00 pm, wrote: "I was an simple pupil successful the aboriginal 1960s. “The Jetsons” was a starring Saturday greeting cartoon, and I retrieve discussions that robots would instrumentality implicit the world. Today robotic works are everyplace — for illustration successful car manufacturing. However it is not the extremity of the world, nor quality civilization." He continued: "Computers successful the 1970s and location computers successful the 1980s were going to destruct each jobs and render humans unnecessary and inert. Now artificial quality is each the scare. It is different caller instrumentality successful an emerging world. The effect should not beryllium non-development, but the exertion of the tool." Henderson added: "Each procreation is faced with caller and increasing advancements, and we bash not request to further hype and fearmonger upcoming inventions and applications. Federal and authorities representatives are close to look astatine these developments, but with an knowing of the uses, not an volition to destruct progress. Emotional discussions and reactions are not the due response, Calm rational processes are successful need. The aforesaid for information centers. Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) has nary spot successful wide reasoning and application." The letter concludes with a call for measured, evidence‑based discussion rather than emotional reaction to emerging technologies.