Or, dive right into the deep end and buy a “dumb phone” that can only text and make phone calls. Weary of technology’s endless incursions into his life, Kingsnorth moved his family from England to a farm in rural Ireland. And to say the tech world has become increasingly anti-human is no longer a rhetorical flourish, but an accurate description of how some AI researchers like to describe their goals. And as artificial intelligence dominates the economy, the tech world may have overplayed its hand, by almost cheerleading humanity’s obsolescence in a way that is unsettling and infuriating to normal people. The academic and writer Tyler Austin Harper, who has written favourably about Kingsnorth’s ideas, sees a popular backlash on the horizon.

Source: National Post January 08, 2026 11:48 UTC