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Horses for Courses

Two people look up at a group of cloaked horsemen, one says 'I liked it so much better when there were only four of them...' The horseman are named: Death, War, Famine, Conquest, Plague, Climate Change, and AI.

In a year that saw rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and natural disasters brought about by climate change, Fiona Katauskas has a humorous take on the existential threats the world currently faces. She imagines the four horsemen of the apocalypse from the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, Death, Famine, War and Conquest, being joined by three new faceless companions: Plague, Climate Change and AI.