Fears that change shape in the darkness have never disappeared throughout human history. The monsters once hidden deep in the forests or the dragons beyond the seas have changed disguises today. Those terrifying figures in mythology did not vanish; they simply moved inside screens in the digital age. In old myths, the monster was the symbol of the "unknown" and the chaos threatening order. Today, however, new crises brought by the modern world have created new monsters. The Golem in ancient Jewish mythology was an artificial creature produced from clay and earth by human hands, but it got out of control after a while. Today, artificial intelligence systems running in laboratories and massive servers are exactly reviving this modern Golem legend. Our deep anxiety that the intelligence we created will surpass us and take away what makes us what we are is actually an updated version of the Frankenstein myth. That digital eye looking at us from behind the screen is nothing more t...
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