Stephen Fry: ‘Humans Created AI, Now Risk Being Replaced’

The gods are now crumbling statues, there is nothing on Mount Olympus, and in another 1,000 years, humans may also not be here, British writer-actor Sir Stephen John Fry said while drawing a parallel between the gradual fall of the Greek pantheon and the invention of artificial intelligence.

- Press Trust Of India

Fry, who grew up reading Greek myths at a time when boys of his age were interested in “football or girls”, was speaking at the 19th Jaipur Literature Festival in a session on his latest book, “Odyssey”, a retelling of Greek poet Homer's epic poem about Odysseus’ arduous journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

The author said that just the way Prometheus created humans, the modern humans created artificial intelligence — both initially meant to be servile entities