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Letter: On what we want from the rise of the machines

Published 29 April 2020

From Sam Edge, Ringwood, Hampshire, UK

Regarding your review of sci-fi novel Providence, which is centred on the rise of powerful artificial intelligence: isn’t what we are striving for in our AI omniscience rather than omnipotence?

Only if said entity were to have agency might it be omnipotent as a result, but this is by no means logically inevitable 4 April, p 32.

Issue no. 3280 published 2 May 2020

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