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Kazuo Ishiguro: "Genetic manipulation can bring a savage meritocracy"

2021-03-09T00:07:25.621Z


The Japanese writer warns about the dangers of big data analysis and artificial enhancement of humans in 'Klara and the Sun', his first novel after the Nobel


Kazuo Ishiguro in London in 2017 AFP Contributor / AFP via Getty Images

Is there nothing unique about the human being that cannot be extracted, copied or transferred?

In other words, can a machine perfectly replace us?

Kazuo Ishiguro (Nagasaki, Japan, 66 years old) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 for, according to the Swedish Academy, knowing how to turn the great concerns of humanity into questions as essential as they are simple.

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