
eoinhiggins.substack.com
September 27, 2026
5 min read
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Summary
Welcome to the Flashpoint. Everyone’s talking about AI, but the words we use are making things worse. Until the conversation gets back to reality, our understanding of what AI is an where it’s going will remain incomplete. AI cannot think for itself, nor can it take independent actions. But anthropomorphizing language suggesting it can is how the technology is described. While this makes sense—hum...