Thoughts on ‘Frankenstein,’ AI and the perils of our unfinished creation

We are nearing a tipping point with artificial intelligence. Scientists call it the singularity — the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our own. Some experts warn that it could come as soon as next year. AI already writes our code, drives our cars and designs our weapons — yet no one truly controls it. In Guillermo del Toro’s haunting “Frankenstein” film, recently released on Netflix, Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s tragedy is not that he conjures life from death. It’s that he abandons it. Horrified by what he has made, he recoils, refusing to claim responsibility for what he’s unleashed. The result is a catastrophe: a creature who, desperate for understanding and belonging, becomes a monster. Some two centuries after British author Mary Shelley penned her dark masterpiece, we are once again standing in Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. Only this time, the creation isn’t a creature stitched together from corpses — it’s intelligence itself. Similar to Dr. Frankenstein, we have discovered how to animate something in our own image, and yet we refuse to own its consWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times