Knowing when to pull the plug on AI
The mischievous owl of Minerva will take flight too late to save us
In 1820, George William Friedrich Hegel was completing a book of political philosophy. At the end of the preface, he added a caution, “One word more about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy … always comes on the scene too late to give it.”
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
Minerva was th…
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