The Spectator Asks If AI Can Become God, Nestled Between a Renoir Review and a Bird Column

Spectator Australia · Tom Knowles · Thursday 16 April 2026

The Spectator Asks If AI Can Become God, Nestled Between a Renoir Review and a Bird Column

The Spectator Australia runs a speculative piece on whether AI can achieve godlike understanding of physics, sandwiched between book reviews and cultural essays about cormorants and Nuremberg.

The Spectator asking whether artificial intelligence can become godlike — mate, most of the magazines in that building can't become relevant. A publication that runs its science coverage between book reviews and a piece about cormorants wants to know if machines can crack the infinite mysteries of the universe. Hawking used a speech synthesiser to explain black holes. The Spectator's using a London postcode to explain everything else.

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