Le Monde.fr

What the Greek myth of Pandora reveals about the deep-seated fear of women

'Jupiter and Pandora' (circa 1600-1640), oil on canvas by Francesco Albani (1578-1660), held at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Italy). ALINARI ARCHIVES/OPALE.PHOTO The myth says that, in the ...
The Economist

Are the myths of Pandora and Prometheus a parable for AI?

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Prometheus, a Titan, stole fire from Mount Olympus to give to humans, whom he created. That did not go down well with Zeus, king of the gods. He sentenced Prometheus to the daily ...
The Next Web

What Greek myths can teach us about the dangers of AI

We might think that the conception of robots, AI, and automated machines is a modern phenomenon, but, in fact, the idea had already appeared in Western literature nearly 3,000 years ago. Long before ...
SpaceNews

NASA Cassini Image: Prometheus, Pandora, and Saturn’s F-ring

Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both fascinate scientists and wreak havoc on the F ring. Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles ...
CounterPunch

Opening the Jar of Pandora

Zeus had the ungodly notion of making men miserable with his ploy of an artificial woman with a Jar (Pithos) full of poisons. Zeus asked the metallurgist god Hephaistos to engineer the first woman in ...