In Part One, The Simplified World, I explain how our AI culture has simplified ideas about people, while expanding ideas about technology. This began with AI’s founder, Alan Turing, and involved understandable but unfortunate simplifications I call “intelligence errors.” Initial errors were magnified into an ideology by Turing’s friend and statistician, I. J. Good, who introduced the idea of “ultraintelligence” as the predictable result once human-level AI had been achieved. Between Turing and Good, we see the modern myth of AI take shape. Its development has landed us in an era of what I call technological kitsch—cheap imitations of deeper ideas that cut off intelligent engagement and weaken our culture. Kitsch tells us how to think and how to feel. The purveyors of kitsch benefit, while the consumers of kitsch experience a loss. They—we— end up in a shallow world