What we do to the web, we do to ourselves

25 Fields Medalists reflected last week “[we all need] to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place.” Their public statement calls out the important connection between a groups goal, and the group itself. It is a caution that we must not destroy the social fabric that clothes us. What we do to that fabric, we do to ourselves.