The longer answer
Is AI good or bad?
It is the wrong question. Not a hard one. The wrong one.
Nobody asks whether electricity is good or bad. Electricity ran the first hospitals and the first electric chairs, and we never blamed the current. We argued about who got it, who was left in the dark, what we chose to wire it to, and who held the switch. The technology was never the variable. The choices were.
AI is the same, only faster and harder to see. Ask whether it is good or bad and you have quietly turned a set of decisions into a forecast, something happening to you rather than something you have a hand in. You become a spectator of an outcome you could be shaping. That is the most expensive thing the question does. It talks you out of your own part in the answer.
So this site refuses to answer, on purpose. The useful question is not what AI is. It is who decides what it becomes, and whether that includes you. The question is who decides.
Where this comes from
The World After AI follows five ordinary people through one Tuesday in 2035, then lives that same day again, with the same technology and the opposite choices. It is not a prediction. It is an argument that the outcome is still ours, and a map of how to claim it. A new book by futurist Ramy Nassar, early 2027.