I was going to write something this week about swimsuits. It is hotter than hell in London right now – we are living under a heat dome – and the only way we can survive is by plunging into cold water. But I think I’ll noodle on that a bit longer because what’s really pulling me at the moment is this question: are there parallels between GLP-1s and AI?
This is something I’ve been discussing a bit with CIHAS medical correspondent Dr. Hammad. I want to write about it; maybe in the autumn when the freak heatwaves have stopped and I can actually think again. Or maybe I’ll make him write a guest piece. But for now I want to hear your thoughts on this.
To start though, I want to be clear that I don’t want to fall into binary or essentialist thinking around either GLP-1s or AI. I’m not taking a position on whether these things are ‘good’ or ‘bad’, but where do we see similarities and differences? We can take this in lots of different directions. The hype machine. The money. The ‘bubble’. Are they the best (or even good enough) answers to the problems we face as a society? They are both positioned as a corrective to the problems of modernity, but have they been designed with that in mind, or have they been retrofitted to be a fix? And what does their ubiquity suggest about how we imagine the future? What do both say about our relationship to our own embodiment? And what does it say about our relationship with emerging technology, largely unchecked corporations, and capital?
Tell me your thoughts in the comments, no matter how knotty or half-formed.
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