Films, series and books let us examine surveillance, attachment, agency and the concentration of power. A compelling story is not evidence that its future will happen. Use it to identify assumptions and compare fiction with what present research can establish.
Fiction as a thought experiment
Stories help us ask better questions.
Selected starting points
Descriptions introduce the source. They do not replace reading it in full.
DeepMind podcast: consciousness and AI
2025
Open original source ↗Nick Bostrom: when computers become smarter than us
2015
Open original source ↗Mustafa Suleyman: what is an AI, anyway?
2024-04
Open original source ↗Evidence, estimates and scenarios are different.
A company announcement is not an independent evaluation. A scenario is not a prediction. Follow the original source and check its date, scope and limitations.