Design & Systems

What Shakespeare got right about AI

An Elizabethan oil portrait of William Shakespeare at a writing desk with a quill, his eyes faintly glowing blue; behind him loom the shadowy figures of his characters, and the handwriting on his manuscript dissolves into glowing blue computer code.

From ink and quill to glowing code: Shakespeare’s exploration of prophecy and equivocation, the art of speaking truths that mislead, anticipates the central challenge of our own relationship with artificial intelligence.

Every warning we need about AI was written four hundred years ago. What…

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