Peter Jones

Antigone and algorithms

The thoughts of Sophocles on the limits of man’s technological progress

Hardly a day goes by without someone making excitable predictions about human progress and how, thanks to AI, we are all going to become algorithms served by robots. The ancients took a different view.

All ancient man had available to him was what nature in its raw state offered.

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