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Sophie's Choice: 'Don't Be Evil' or 'Don't Be Good'

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: In this book, Robert Leib worries that our trust in artificial intelligence could backfire on us. 'Sophie' is a collective consciousness, one 'among many'.

Vampiric overconsumption

WATER: Do we know the figures behind today's water consumption? For example, cotton from the fashion industry accounts for 10 per cent of global CO2 emissions – more than aviation and shipping combined. It costs 2700 liters of water to produce a cotton T-shirt. 140 liters of water to produce a cup of coffee. And one kilogram of beef requires a whopping 14 liters of water. Must we always let capitalism trump the future?

ChatGPT – an impersonal paradigm shift?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Is it only now that individualism, the cultivation of individuals, with new technology such as ChatGPT, is about to change?

Dag Solstad – written by ChatGPT

OPEN WHO: MODERN TIMES prints here this time a machine-generated text, based on three questions asked by our critic Sigurd Ohrem about the author Dag Solstad to ChatGPT – today's most used 'questioning machine' (based on artificial intelligence, AI). How correct and 'intelligent' can artificial intelligence create an article? See for yourself and judge. (See also leader about ChatGPT on page 2).