I wonder if the folks who feel this way tend to think of vocational value in terms of who they are - am I published, am I the smartest person in the room, etc. - rather than what they're doing - am I teaching people, helping people, solving problems.
Russ
In fact, the speaker admitted to "working very closely with Claude", to the point where he's currently "writing" a book entirely written by AI. People in the amphitheater gasped. The speaker - a scholar from France - then shared that his "experiment" has led him to feel useless as an intellectual.