Machines Like Me
A quick review of Ian McEwan's "Machines Like Me", a literary sci-fi work, followed by some thoughts it inspired about the uses to which we put "artificial intelligence" which are diametrically opposed to the solutions we need to real problems faced by humans like us. #AI #literature #ethics
http://ericlawton.org/2026/03/20/machines-like-me/
Eric Lawton
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