The dream of AI is that humanity is able to create and harness a higher power of intelligence, capable of solving all the many problems we cannot solve ourselves. The nightmare is that the solutions it finds will be worse than the problems, and we will be powerless to stop it. There have been many thousands of articles, research papers, long-form blogs, dystopian novels and so on dedicated to the subject, but none so perfect as that found in the Daddy Robot episode of the magnificent dog-based children’s cartoon Bluey. In Daddy Robot, Bluey asks Daddy Robot to tidy the playroom for her because she can’t be bothered to do it herself. Daddy Robot responds by throwing Bluey and her little sister Bingo in

Source: The Times January 13, 2025 22:16 UTC