I’m sitting in my Vermont home office with our nine-week–old kitten on my lap, back from a two-week foray in the Bay Area to visit my sons and longtime friends. After living here for three years I’ve gotten used to the lack of billboards, which might explain why I was struck by the barrage of them as we drove into San Francisco. Another reason? These billboards were all about AI. In just two years, artificial intelligence companies have gobbled up the office spaces formerly u

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