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Letter: On the potential power of the new generation of AI (3)

Published 7 June 2023

From Chris Arnold, Darlington, Western Australia

If you are wondering what life will be like once AI becomes all-powerful, just ask any creationist. They have been telling us about a world ruled by an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent non-organic life form for millennia. Start praying.

Issue no. 3442 published 10 June 2023

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