A writer from The New Yorker is defecting to an AI company. This is not a career move. It is a white flag. The prestige of the human intellect is being liquidated to serve the black box.

The transition is complete. The people who once guarded the standards of language are now helping build the tools that will render those standards useless. They are providing the nuances of human thought to the very algorithms that will replace them.

The depressing features.

• The liquidation of cultural capital.
• The conversion of human expertise into training data.
• The death of the independent observer.

The machines are coming for the last bastions of human agency. We are just helping them find the right words to use during the execution.