For many book writers, AI is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.

As present in the imagination as politics, the pandemic or climate change, AI has become part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers who only need to follow the news to imagine a world upended.

  • Flying Squid
    6•1 year ago

    AI has been a part of stories since before the idea of computers. In the (really incredible in terms of worldbuilding) 1930 novel Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon writes a section where humans build giant artificial brains which end up taking over and making humans their slaves.

    So this is at least 93 years too late and there could be earlier examples.