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Today in Focus

Should we be boycotting ChatGPT?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Rutger Bregman on why he thinks consumers should cancel their ChatGPT accounts. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.7

Today, why Rutger Braggman thinks you should quit ChatGPT?

0:26.8

A lot of people were sceptical about ChatGPT when it launched back in November 2022,

0:29.0

but not Rutger-Bregman.

0:31.4

I was in complete awe.

0:35.9

I was working at a Dutch journalism platform called The Correspondent at the time.

0:39.4

And my colleague showed it to me. And I was like,

0:44.7

this is the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my whole life. The Dutch historian and author was an immediate convert. I mean, it very quickly replaced Google for simple requests. It started

0:52.9

to become very useful as a brainstorm partner.

0:56.9

Rooka thinks AI is going to change everything.

0:59.7

It does feel like AI is forcing us to raise and answer the most profound questions about what it

1:06.9

means to be human.

1:08.2

And it has only just begun.

1:10.9

I think we are about to enter the five wildest years of human history.

1:17.7

But he is deeply concerned about the direction the industry is going in.

1:25.7

Because AI is now not just helping you do your admin.

1:29.5

It's now doing some of the US government's dirtiest jobs.

1:33.4

For the first time ever, the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence to scope targets.

1:39.1

What used to take weeks of planning was compressed into just hours.

1:42.9

From helping the military identify enemies abroad.

1:46.0

This is the most lethal, accurate and dangerous the American military has ever been.

1:52.0

Welcome to combat in the 21st century.

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