UNLEASHING THE FUTURE’S FIRE

The world premiere of a special new work, made by Sport for Jove, commissioned by the NSW Department of Education. In his electrifying new play Prometheus, Damien Ryan reimagines the pulsepounding showdown between the ancient Greek Gods and the Titan, Prometheus, through the lens of our rapid development of Artificial Intelligence and the inherited duties of creation and consequence we face as we race inexorably toward machines that can think for themselves.

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What are we thinking in doing so? Will we flourish? Or are we manifesting our own destruction?

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Like the mythic Prometheus who stole fire from the gods, AI emerges here as humanity’s stolen spark — powerful, unpredictable, and teetering on the edge of salvation or catastrophe. A Sydney based AI start up releases the world’s first sentient, generative intelligence program onto the internet, charged with enhancing human flourishing. From there, the world changes forever.