Steven Poole

The balance of power between humans and machines

Robert Skidelsky dismisses the possibility of our annihilation by a superintelligent computer system, since ‘science tells us that we cannot create such a being’. But does it?

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issue 18 November 2023
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  • The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning

    Robert Skidelsky

    Allen Lane, pp. 384, £25

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