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We are nearing a tipping point with artificial intelligence. Scientists call it the singularity — the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our own. Some experts warn that it could come as soon as next year. AI already writes our code, drives our cars and designs our weapons — yet no one truly controls it.

In Guillermo del Toro’s haunting “Frankenstein” film, recently released on Netflix, Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s tragedy is not that he conjures life from death. It’s that he abandons it. Horrified by what he has made, he recoils, refusing to claim responsibility for what he’s unleashed. The result is a catastrophe: a creature who, desperate for understanding and belonging, becomes a monster.

Some two centuries after British author Mary S

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