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We are Living in Their Science Fiction

We are living in the worlds imagined by Elon Musk and Sam Altman—realities shaped by Foundation, Her, and We Are Legion, ...
As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and ...
Ken Liu is a big name in science fiction. His latest novel All That We See or Seem takes place in a world that’s not too ...
The National Book Award-winning author’s new “cozy science fiction” novel takes place in the far future and pivots on the personhood of AI.
This post was updated Oct. 16 at 7:29 p.m. In his upcoming science fiction trilogy, Benjamin Huang’s thoughts on artificial ...
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Science Fiction Won’t Kill You, but the Terms of Service Will

From Black Mirror to Her to Cyberpunk 2077, science fiction reveals that our real threat isn’t killer robots—it’s the corporate systems quietly rewriting what it means to be human.
Once, science fiction served as a prophecy of the future. Today, technology is transforming these visions into our lived ...
Generative AI is the source of a lot of angst. For students, for workers, for artists. We’ll talk to Bellevue-based science fiction writer Ted Chiang about how he thinks about it as a writer.