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Frankenstein's warning revived in the age of Sam Altman

Original: "Careful, it's hot." --Prometheus, inventor of the oven-mitt. Reading Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein", I wa

A reader of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein" says they were struck by Victor Frankenstein's refusal to consider the consequences of the creature he created, joking that images of OpenAI's Sam Altman kept coming to mind. The quip, paired with a Prometheus gag about the oven-mitt, casts Altman as a modern creator of technology unleashed without thought for its consequences.

Why now: Ongoing public debate over whether AI developers like Sam Altman are heeding the consequences of their creations, echoing Frankenstein's cautionary theme.

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• "Careful, it's hot." --Prometheus, inventor of the oven-mitt. Reading Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein", I was struck by Frankenstein's initial refusal to consider the consequences of and for the creature he created. I don't know why pictures of Sam Altman kept… · mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org · 3

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