Resultaat voor "Me" in Cyberpunk sciencefiction

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers...

AI has no conscience, fear, or shame. It has no children, no home, no 3 a.m. anxiety. Only we do. And yet we already let it decide who gets a chance — for a job, a loan, a home, even basic safety. Today, algorithms screen résumés before any human ever sees your name. They label some applicants as “promising” and quietly mark others as “high-risk.” They help banks decide who deserves credit, insurers decide who is “too expensive,” and “smart” systems in cities decide where to send patrols, how to phase traffic lights, when to cut power.

I was in my garage when the space elves addressed the whole world. They didn't call themselves space elves, of course. Most humans struggled to pronounce Khjurhnalva, so we opted for the easier version. They had a message for us: Forces that had eradicated their species' males were now heading for Earth. Hungry for our resources, the alien hordes annihilate everything that stands in their way. The space elves offered us access to the System and asked for very little in return. After all, cooperation was vital to the survival of both our species.