In discussions about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI), someone almost always evokes the ancient Greek myth of Pandora’s box. In the modern fairytale version of the story, Pandora is depicted as a tragically curious young woman who opens a sealed urn and inadvertently releases eternal misery on humankind. Like the genie that has escaped […]
Author Archives: Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor, a research scholar in classics and history and philosophy of science at Stanford University, is a 2018-2019 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. She is the author of the forthcoming book Gods and Robots: Myth, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (November 2018).