The Guardian · AI
Jeanette Winterson argues AI’s future is not inevitably dystopian
Jeanette Winterson believes humanity is at a turning point and that people can choose how to proceed despite the influence of big tech. Her 2021 essay collection, 12 Bytes, explores how artificial intelligence might reshape our lives. Her fiction has also examined possible futures, including a world of robots and humans who do not age in The Stone Gods.
What to know
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12 Bytes, her 2021 essay collection, examines how AI could change human life.
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Her 2007 novel The Stone Gods imagines a post-climate-catastrophe world inhabited by robots and humans who never age.
Why it matters
These works provide a literary context for her discussion of AI and humanity’s choices about its future.
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