This thought-provoking piece inspired me to think of the usefulness of a ‘fool’ in a king’s court, unafraid to speak ‘truth to power’. It then moved me to think of AI chatbots, especially the ‘hallucinatory’ kind, as our useful ‘fools’, potentially providing a sounding board for our ‘dreams’ that might induce comforting, and perhaps revelatory, prophecies.
This thought-provoking piece inspired me to think of the usefulness of a ‘fool’ in a king’s court, unafraid to speak ‘truth to power’. It then moved me to think of AI chatbots, especially the ‘hallucinatory’ kind, as our useful ‘fools’, potentially providing a sounding board for our ‘dreams’ that might induce comforting, and perhaps revelatory, prophecies.