To the editor: It would be easy to conclude that contributing writer Matt Lewis is too young to have read the heavyweight press in the 1970s, when the media had just discovered the microchip ( “AI will be more disruptive than COVID. Which party can seize the moment?,” Aug. 15). He would have read endless screeds about how many millions would be put out of work, with their skills on the junk heap, agonizing over how we will ever fill these endless hours of leisure.

It didn’t happen. And yet our memories are so short that again we find acres of newsprint filled with the declarations of pundits telling us that many more millions of jobs will be wiped out by the irresistible power of artificial intelligence. We need to face the fact that the potential of AI to take over our daily life is

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