Pandora's Box: the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

The first Artificial Intelligence ever created was Pandora, a creation of the Greek gods Hephaestus and Athena. Pandora means both "all-gifted" and "all-giving" and was constructed with attributes from every other Olympian god. Pandora was created at the request of Zeus, the king of the gods, as a punishment for Prometheus stealing fire, the first disruptive technology, and handing it over to mankind. Zeus punishes Prometheus, the proto-god of technology and intelligence, for giving fire to mankind by chaining him to a rock, and he punishes mankind by giving them Pandora, the first A.I., who has been endowed with attributes from all of the gods. But how is this gift a punishment?