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- I, Robot // Isaac Asimov. When it comes to fiction about artificial intelligence, Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot (1950) is foundational. The collection of short stories popularized the Three Laws of Robotics, a concept that Asimov first explicitly introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround” (which is featured in I, Robot).
- Sea of Rust // C. Robert Cargill. Stories about the AI apocalypse—the most popular examples being The Terminator (1984) and The Matrix (1999)—tend to feature human characters, but in C. Robert Cargill’s Sea of Rust (2017) humanity is completely wiped out.
- A Closed and Common Orbit // Becky Chambers. A Closed and Common Orbit (2016) follows two characters—Lovelace, an AI that inhabits a spaceship, and Pepper, a tech expert—from Becky Chambers’s debut novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014).
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? // Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) takes place in a dystopian future and follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard as he tracks down and eliminates artificial intelligences inhabiting genetically engineered android bodies that are nearly identical to human ones.
May 16, 2024 · The artificial humanities, she explains, would fuse science and the arts to leverage fiction and philosophy in the exploration of AI’s benevolent potential. On supporting science journalism
Feb 22, 2024 · In the world of science fiction, the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a popular theme for decades. From the iconic HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” to the self-aware androids in “Blade Runner,” AI has captured the imagination of audiences and sparked countless debates about the potential impact of this technology on our future.
18 hours ago · Science fiction has long been a window into possible futures, often anticipating technological advancements and societal shifts with surprising accuracy. While AI is now widely recognized for its ...
Mar 9, 2024 · If you’ve read any science fiction about AI, ... have entertained the idea that AI might be fundamentally different from us in this regard. Maybe we’re just not very good at imagining alien ...
Oct 5, 2021 · Science-fiction (SF) has become a reference point in the discourse on the ethics and risks surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Thus, AI in SF—science-fictional AI—is considered part of a larger corpus of ‘AI narratives’ that are analysed as shaping the fears and hopes of the technology. SF, however, is not a foresight or technology assessment, but tells dramas for a human ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Science fiction can also illustrate the grim possibilities of overuse of social media and lack of data privacy—both closely related to the explosion of AI—in a more forceful way than ...
