The AI Treadmill

Deb Liu · 4 Jun 2026

Deb Liu did not write this page.

Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

Our reading
AI helps you do more, but doing more does not mean doing it better.

Their wordsAI can help you do more. But doing more doesn’t automatically mean doing it better.
Our reading
AI is in its first chapter, and most of the world has not started using it yet.

Their wordsThat’s where we are with AI. We are not at the end of this story. We are in the first chapter. And most of the world hasn’t started reading yet.

Keep reading

The other pieces are the ones whose claims are worded most like this one's. That measures language, not agreement: they may argue the opposite.