E. M. Forster on AI
2 quotes from E. M. Forster on the wall, 1909, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Oxford and Cambridge Review, The Oxford and Cambridge Review.
The only thing that really lives is the Machine
English novelist E. M. Forster published this short story in the Oxford and Cambridge Review in November 1909. In it, the character Kuno speaks to his mother about a world run by an all-providing Machine.
We created the Machine, to do our will
English novelist E. M. Forster published the short story The Machine Stops in November 1909. Kuno says these words to his mother Vashti after telling her how he climbed out to the surface and saw the hills of Wessex.