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Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey in 2023

The 1968 film's warning about the dangers of unchecked AI are more relevant than ever, but not in the way you might think.

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Jeremy Appel
Aug 09, 2023
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Keir Dullea plays Dr. David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Flickr)

My partner and I have been on a science fiction movie kick and we decided to throw on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey the other night.

While there are many thematic angles from which to view the film — evolution, the space race, the nature of the universe, spir…

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