Topic > Evolving Intelligence: A Historical Perspective
This is clearly seen in Terminator, Age of Ultron and in The Matrix. While the films themselves are very different, the theme is the same: robots turn against their human masters and a bloodbath ensues. Even pre-modern societies warned against artificial intelligence. In an old Jewish tale called “The Golem,” a village rabbi created a clay golem to defend the village. When a small force attacks the village, the golem slaughters them and is thereafter corrupted by the idea of violence. Once time had passed, the golem destroyed the village and killed everyone except the rabbi, so he could be tormented forever because he had been the ruin of everyone he had ever known..
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