Edition 169 · work · Claire Connolly

Swift saw AI coming: A prescient satire of digital drudgery

Gulliver's Travels, 300 years on, offers a stark mirror to our AI-driven workplaces. Swift

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Swift's Struldbrugs, those wretched immortals, are the ultimate AI warning. They are sentient,

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To claim Swift, writing in 1726, foresaw artificial intelligence is anachronistic nonsense. His satire

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