Artificial Intelligence and its discontents

Fr Martin Boland
28 December 2025, The Tablet

AI isn’t just changing the game – it’s rewriting the rules of humanity. The question looms: are we engineering progress, or programming our own obsolescence?

The Beast from Baku vs Deep Blue
The event had the hallmarks of a publicity stunt: man vs. machine with attendant media hype. But in terms of the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) it proved a decisive moment. It might even prove a pivotal one for the history of humanity.
The event was a game of chess.

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