The Good Man Is the Builder

AI is revolutionary, but man has invented many a revolutionary thing. Understanding its arrival in the context of our history is key to its deployment for good.

From the Stone Age to today, man has invented in pursuit of information and motion—or, in today’s terms, data and speed. More, faster! The wheel, the dictionary, the printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, the computer, nuclear power, and artificial intelligence—we are producing, going, and knowing at rates we can hardly wrap our minds around, …