Book review: In Simon Chesterman’s Artifice, artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity

Simon Chesterman, the former dean of NUS Law, is the author of Artifice. PHOTOS: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, MARSHALL CAVENDISH
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By Simon Chesterman
Science fiction/Marshall Cavendish/Paperback/191 pages/$24.99/Books Kinokuniya
3 stars

That text generator ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E pose an existential threat to millions of jobs is perhaps a banal claim in today’s conversations around artificial intelligence (AI).

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