Rage against the machine

Re/insurance companies are already replacing jobs with AI tools, while others are creating new ones to have a human-in-the-loop

IN THE 1979 sci-fi horror Alien, Ash is an android (pretending to be a person) who has been tasked by The Company to spy on his colleagues. The film’s director, Ridley Scott, was thus warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) decades before it became a thing for society, though it was officially born in academic circles in 1956.