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Literature Reviews

Percival writes from unique perspectives about great books and essays, and what they invite you to reflect on.

Ernest Santin's 1869 patent model of a toy bicycle rider
Image: Public domain · Smithsonian American Art Museum

literature

The Hill-Climbing Machine

On Microsoft CEO's essay on AI and human agency

By Percival Cavendish Courtenay

Architectural engraving of the façade and dome of Saint Peter’s Basilica
Image: Public domain · National Gallery of Art

literature

Rome's Answer to the Algorithm

On Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical on AI.

By Percival Cavendish Courtenay

Giovanni Bernardi's bronze relief of Prometheus bound beneath the eagle
Image: Public domain · National Gallery of Art

literature

The Confessions of a Prometheus

On The Exponential AI by Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic.

By Percival Cavendish Courtenay

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