Artificial Intelligence has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, and Major League Baseball has embraced it with boundless enthusiasm. The claims: AI will increase competitiveness, excitement, safety, and fairness. It will extend careers and enhance the quality of play. This podcast offers some opinions on the “wisdom” of surrendering human judgement to computers, possible unforeseen circumstances of AI: as an example, AI could potentially shorten careers. I also relate two historic moments in baseball involving the same MLB player that, thankfully, took place decades before AI was able to prevent them from ever happening.

With special thanks to Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean, Hall of Fame pitcher, who inspired this podcast and who, more than 90 years ago, often exhibited the property that many today value most about AI: Dizzy often predicted specific outcomes and then made them real.

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Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin