Not long before the OpenAI deal was first announced, John Sullins, a tenured professor of philosophy at Sonoma State, was told that his department was closing down and that much of the humanities faculty had been let go. After more than 25 years of teaching, he suddenly found himself out of a job. He spent a few weeks coming to terms with his newfound unemployment.

But then he got a call informing him that he had been rehired into the computer science department, where he now teaches courses on A.I. ethics and the philosophy of technology. “With the decimation will always come the return,” Sullins says. C.S.U. prides itself on its history of rebuilding in the aftermath of disaster — Tower Hall, at S.J.S.U., was built from the rubble after earthquakes and fires destroyed the school’s original structures. “The question is,” Sullins says, “how far does the decimation go?”

A lot of the article is passive voice both sidesism, however Doc Sullins at least gets the last word.