Max Tegmark’s speculative non-fiction ***Life 3.0*** presents the spectrum of futures mankind faces due to the ascent of artificial intelligence. He’s a physics professor and leans heavily into how it could occur. However, he’s also wordy.
Written in 2017, today many of the things he posits are rapidly becoming reality.
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The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
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I recent read *The Dream Hotel* by by Laila Lalami. It is set in a US that not only uses AI but data from internet, social media, cameras, and especially dreams recorded from implants people use to be more productive. All of that creates algorithms that create a risk score that a person will commit a crime and, once beyond a threshold, will be placed in a detainment facility. And all this is handled by for-profit companies.
There’s also Ishiguro’s *Klara and the Sun*, where the narrator is an AI companion, a sort of robot doll for children.
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Max Tegmark’s speculative non-fiction ***Life 3.0*** presents the spectrum of futures mankind faces due to the ascent of artificial intelligence. He’s a physics professor and leans heavily into how it could occur. However, he’s also wordy.
Written in 2017, today many of the things he posits are rapidly becoming reality.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
I recent read *The Dream Hotel* by by Laila Lalami. It is set in a US that not only uses AI but data from internet, social media, cameras, and especially dreams recorded from implants people use to be more productive. All of that creates algorithms that create a risk score that a person will commit a crime and, once beyond a threshold, will be placed in a detainment facility. And all this is handled by for-profit companies.
There’s also Ishiguro’s *Klara and the Sun*, where the narrator is an AI companion, a sort of robot doll for children.
Also look at Ted Chiang’s essays on AI published in *The New Yorker*. [Here’s a link to one.](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art)