Opinion: Ambivalence Over AI: We Are All Prometheus Now

Image caption: The first test of a hydrogen bomb, Operation Ivy, is performed at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1952. Image source: Corbis Historical via Getty Images. Opinion article by Nicholas B. Dirks. Undark – February 22, 2024.

Revolts against science are often deeply irrational, as we witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic, with political polarization around lifesaving vaccines and critical public health measures. But public distrust of science has too often been enabled through its manipulation by corporate interests, including big tobacco and oil, as well as by the dangers associated with its use in war. […]

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