Design & Systems

What Shakespeare got wrong about AI

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A classic Elizabethan oil portrait of William Shakespeare at his writing desk, his quill fallen from his hand, watching with quiet alarm as glowing blue characters and lines of code lift off his manuscript and stream past the edges of the painting; behind him, the faint figures of his characters, witches, a crowned king, a hooded ghost, a robed magician with a broken staff, dissolve into the same escaping blue light.

He wrote about a magic you could always stop. We built the kind that gets loose.

He understood us better than science fiction ever has. The one thing he couldn’t imagine was what we actually built.

Shakespeare’s magic always had an off switch. Somebody could summon it and shut it down. It…

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