It’s a phrase that has outlived the maps that bore it, evolving from a literal warning about sea monsters into one of our most powerful metaphors for the unknown. But why are we still so obsessed with the idea of dragons waiting at the edge of our world? The Boundary of the Known

Beyond the Edge: The Allure of "There Be Dragons" In the corners of ancient maps, where the ink of known coastlines faded into the vast, churning blue of the unknown, cartographers used to scrawl a chilling warning: Hic Sunt Dracones .

There is a secret to those old maps: the dragons weren't just there to scare people away. They were also a .

They live in the "black box" of advanced AI, where we aren't entirely sure how a machine reached its conclusion.