Sam Altman, in his Lunch with the FT, tells your editor Roula Khalaf that while he used to think artificial intelligence was as consequential as the Industrial Revolution, he now reckons the “explosion in creativity” makes the Renaissance a more apt analogy (“‘This is genius-level intelligence’”, Lunch with the FT, Life & Arts, May 10).
I wonder if he has thought to run Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries through OpenAI’s new o3 large language model, a more advanced AI tool than ChatGPT. He’d be prompted to note that the English Reformation, which separated the Church of England from the authority of the pope in Rome, saw fundamental — highly consequential — new types of wealth inequalities created.
As an OpenAI IPO must surely have been scenario-planned by now, perhaps a Reformation bullet point should be added to the business plan alongside those on the original Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci, the inventor and industrialist Richard Arkwright, and the “dissolution” of all copyright?
Robin Hunt
Writer & Artist, London NW11, UK
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