George Eliot on AI
2 quotes from George Eliot on the wall, 1879, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include William Blackwood and Sons.
Machinery which will by-and-by throw itself fatally out of work
Novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in the chapter Shadows of the Coming Race of her last book, a set of essays by a fictional narrator, published May 1879. The narrator spars with his friend Trost, who sees machines as slaves.
William Blackwood and SonsImpressions of Theophrastus Such (Shadows of the Coming Race)
Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race
Novelist George Eliot in Shadows of the Coming Race, a chapter in which her narrator imagines machines that repair and reproduce themselves and supersede humans, published May 1879.
William Blackwood and SonsImpressions of Theophrastus Such (Shadows of the Coming Race)