Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI | Letters

Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligence Emma Brockes’ article struck a chord ( It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears, 8 April ). I am reading Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, in which the eminent French historian and soon-to-be-executed resistance worker gives a first-hand account of the collapse of the French army in 1940.