[Editorial] Lessons from Greek mythology for an AI world

Classical Greek texts feature many examples of mortals acting against advice and experiencing adverse consequences, such as Icarus flying too close to the sun or Pandora opening a box containing evils and miseries that were then released into the world. Pandora was curious, and curiosity is a foundational feature of good science: the desire to discover and understand more about the world in which we live. Modern scientific equivalents of Pandora's box might be nuclear power, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI).