AI will dissolve human civilization as we know it
Demis Hassabis has dedicated himself to guiding machine intelligence for the betterment of humanity – but is it listening?
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Culture Books Book of the Day 22 April 2026 AI will dissolve civilisation as we know it Demis Hassabis has dedicated himself to guiding machine intelligence for the betterment of humanity – but is it listening? By John Gray Illustration by Serge Seidlitz In Roadside Picnic, a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky published in the Soviet Union in 1972 and the basis for a 1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky, an extraterrestrial species visits places on the planet that come to be called zones. The aliens stay for only two days, then depart, without displaying any interest in humans or having any contact with them.
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