Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Cornell University professor Daniel Huttenlocher worked together for three years to write a single article for the August 2019 issue of The Atlantic. In it, they set out to solve the "riddles" of artificial intelligence, which they call an "unstoppable revolution," but they only managed to mimic other AI sign-twirlers. Their conclusions read like an encyclopedia entry for "hyperbole": "The challenge of absorbing this new technology into the values and practices of the existing culture has no precedent. The most comparable event was the transition from the medieval to the modern period. AI software is more than technology, the authors contend. Its advent will change the meaning of truth as we know it: "The Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant ascribed truth to the impact of the structure of the human mind on observed reality.