An Artificial Intelligence Wake-Up Call from Ancient Greece

"Those who warn about the potential dangers and unintended consequences of artificial intelligence and machine learning are right to invoke Pandora and her jar of miseries. In fact, the myth of Pandora is actually more appropriate than many realize, not for what it says about naive curiosity, but for what it tells us about humankind's relationship with technology."

Adrienne Mayor writes about artificial intelligence in relation to the myth of Pandora's Box in here article for Project Syndicate. The article can be read online here.