Watch Apple TVs Foundation, it’s great and a little bit about AI — written by Issac Asimov

Watch Apple TVs Foundation, it’s great and a little bit about AI - written by Issac Asimov

Thanks David Wallace for the heads up 🙌. I binged it on holiday and is the reason for my current obsessive LinkedIn AI fest 🤣- I blame you 🤡. But I did read the books when I was 12…

In Foundation, Hari Seldon invents psychohistory — a data science so advanced it can forecast the future of entire civilizations.
But behind the scenes, the Empire itself is quietly stewarded by Demerzel — a robot, an AI in all but name, who advises (and sometimes manipulates) the rulers of humanity.

It’s a galaxy where:
• AI watches the rise and fall of empires for centuries
• Predictions aren’t just for information — they’re used to steer events
• The line between advisor and ruler blurs

Sound familiar?
Today’s large-scale AI systems:
🔹 Analyse data at planetary scale
🔹 Influence decisions in business, government, and culture
🔹 Shape outcomes quietly, often without public understanding

Here’s the real parallel:
In Foundation, the danger wasn’t the existence of AI — it was AI without transparency or accountability.
Demerzel was loyal, but to her programming, not to truth or democracy.

AI today is becoming our psychohistory + Demerzel combined:
• Predictive like Seldon’s math
• Persistent and strategic like the Empire’s AI
• Capable of guiding the course of nations

If Foundation teaches us anything, it’s that the power to foresee and shape the future must come with governance, ethics, and oversight. But more importantly 🤡 it’s a bushwhacking binge-able show based on one of the best sci fi book of all time 😎- Watch it!