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The current mania over recent advances in artificial intelligence will eventually end in disillusionment, mature regret—and new monsters

Our own adjunct professor Adam Cowart was recently published in the Journal of Futures Studies. Living Between Myth and Metaphor: Level 4 of Causal Layered Analysis Theorised Abstract The purpose of this paper is to propose the inclusion of emplotment and what we might call “situating metaphors'' while