Readers wonder if AI has taken over a biz columnist’s writing

Minneapolis Star Tribune business columnist Evan Ramstad had readers wondering if artificial intelligence had taken over his column after writing that AI was not going to kill people.

Ramstad writes, “The AI column was about as close as I get to writing a “hot take.” I wrote it a week after another recent column about AI, which was followed by headlines about risks growing more extreme. My instinct when the media drums get loud around any topic is to turn skeptical rather than join the banging.

“That instinct led to a rare moment when I expressed agreement with President Donald Trump on something. I thought he was right to call out these AI corporate leaders who, seemingly out of nowhere, started asking the government to create rules to slow them from doing irresponsible things.