Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie
6/17/202654 min
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is making writer and musician Anna Goldsworthy feel both more human - valuing what it is that differentiates us from algorithms - and simultaneously worried about the capacity of AI to reduce human agency. And, established in 1793, the Paris zoo captured the essence of enlightenment thinking, where science, spectacle, and shifting ideas about animals came together in one place.