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Prophecies of Steel, Silicon, and Compute: The AI Revolution Through a 19th-Century Lens
This ByteLaw® Invention Session episode examines the foresight of 19th-century authors Samuel Butler and William Grove, whose Victorian narratives predicted the evolutionary and mechanical rise of artificial intelligence. While Butler explored the inevitable dependency humans would develop on machines, Grove anticipated the corporate infrastructure and emergent behaviors required for high-level computation. The analysis argues that modern industry leaders like Sam Altman have turned these historical warnings into a centralized blueprint for human obsolescence. To counter this, the author…
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