{"id":2391,"date":"2025-07-18T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2391\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:12:07","slug":"is-ai-our-modern-day-frankenstein-jeanette-winterson-and-toby-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2391\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI our modern-day Frankenstein? Jeanette Winterson and Toby Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything humans do is a fiction until it is a fact: flying, space travel, communicating instantly across time and place, defying our own mortality. Acclaimed British author Jeanette Winterson argues that 200 years ago, Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein, was a message in a bottle, a prophesy, of today&#8217;s AI revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The event <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unswcentreforideas.com\/event\/art-and-science-ai\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Art and Science of AI<\/a> was recorded at the 2025 <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swf.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival<\/a>, in partnership with the <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/unswcentreforideas.com\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of New South Wales&#8217;s Centre for Ideas<\/a> on 21 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanettewinterson.com\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanette Winterson<\/a><br \/>Author, 12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love, Oranges are not the only fruit, and many more<br \/>Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/tobywalsh.ai\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Walsh<\/a> (host)<br \/>Author, The Shortest History of AI: Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today and more<br \/>Chief Scientist of AI, University of New South Wales<br \/>Fellow, Australian Academy of Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything humans do is a fiction until it is a fact: flying, space travel, communicating instantly across time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3661,256,3662,254,255,64,63,3654,3659,3656,3660,3655,3658,105,3657],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ada-lovelace","tag-ai","tag-alan-turing","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-ideas","tag-frankenstein","tag-jeanette-winterson","tag-mary-shelley","tag-natasha-mitchell","tag-sydney-writers-festival","tag-technology","tag-toby-walsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}