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Simon Rogerson, Professor Emeritus in Computer Ethics, De Montfort University

Artificial intelligence: what five giants of the past can teach us about handling the risks

Ada Lovelace (1815-52), the mother of computing. HappySloth

The progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has been relentless. With OpenAI’s latest model, o3, recently breaking records yet again, it raises urgent questions about safety, as well as the future of humanity.

One place we can turn for help is to great thinkers from the past. They explored beyond the obvious in their worlds and often looked into the future, foreseeing a time when machines would have AI-like capabilities.

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