“I used ChatGPT for the first time on the day it was launched, I think, November 30th, 2022. And I instantly was like, oh my God, my career is over.”
Search Engine · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026
Witt, the author of a biography of Jensen Huang and NVIDIA, is explaining how he came to cover AI. He goes on to say the tool seemed to write as well as he did, for free and in a second, and that he talked to a therapist about it.
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My name is Stephen Witt, and I write about AI and technology. I'm the author of The Thinking Machine, a biography of Jensen Wong and the history of NVIDIA.
…written. And Stephen Witt, its author, he's a person who both respects Jensen's mind and ambition and also really disagrees with him about how dangerous AI might be. In fact, the reason Stephen started covering AI years ago was because his first encounter with the technology had scared him so much.
I used Chat GPT for the first time on the day it was launched, I think, November 30th, 2022. And I instantly was like, oh my God, my career is over.
That was your first thought.
Oh, right away. Like, they have a writing machine now, and it writes just as well as me, but it does it for free in one second. Like, I just had this total spiral. I was like, this is horrible. I talked to a therapist about it, actually.
Really?
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