Patrick Stewart was thinking about AI ethics years before ChatGPT launched

Yesterday, the world lost one of its great thespians. Sir Patrick Stewart, known on stage for his riveting portrayals of Shakespeare’s characters and, more broadly, for his film portrayals of the X-Men’s Professor X, passed away after a short battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. But of course, the role Stewart is best known for is playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran for seven seasons from 1987 to 1994. Unlik...