{"id":458120,"date":"2026-05-20T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458120\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:14:07","slug":"ai-cannot-produce-key-element-unique-to-humans-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458120\/","title":{"rendered":"AI cannot produce key element unique to humans \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maureen-dowd\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maureen-dowd\/\">Maureen Dowd<\/a> explains in her piece, (May 18th), those things they make us human: \u201cempathy, emotion, psychology, critical thinking &#8230; they are facets of the human condition that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\">AI<\/a> cannot replicate\u201d \u2013 \u201cyet\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Why? Although AI is terrific at logical thinking it cannot produce what we humans can- that \u201cemotional depth\u201d which colours the range of the humanities, that exciting, wonderful corpus of the study of human society, culture and the human experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While we worry about to what dark place the development of AI may be leading, Dowd\u2019s article lifted my spirit and reminded me that all hope is not lost; there is, though, that weasel word still rattling around in my brain \u2013 \u201cyet\u201d. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ALASTAIR CONAN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Coulsdon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 As Maureen Dowd explains in her piece, (May 18th), those things they make us human: \u201cempathy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,70864,80],"class_list":["post-458120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}