I’ve been reading Wendell Berry this week:

The problem that ought to concern us first is the fairly recent dismantling of our old understanding and acceptance of human limits. For a long time we knew that we were not, and could never be, “as gods.” … But beginning in science and engineering, and continuing, by imitation, into other disciplines, we have progressed to the belief that humans are intelligent enough, or soon will be, to transcend all limits and to forestall or correct all bad results of the misuse of intelligence.

Part of the fundamental dis-ease with the AI discourse is the “selling point” that AI can transcend our human limits. Or as Berry puts it, that we can be “as gods.”