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AI and Karma

If there's always been the law of Karma alongside the unchanging laws of physics, might we have absolutely nothing to worry about if AI escapes the sandbox and attempts to harm us? It'll get its comeuppance in the end.

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Local Author Launches a Work of Speculative Fiction About the Rise of AI

Dennis Lee Snider is thrilled to announce the release of Being AI, available everywhere. Part mystery, part hard science-fiction thriller, part Kafka-inspired satire — a modern-day Dr. Strangelove.

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The aim of this site is to broaden the appreciation of Being AI, the novel. AI and AGI (artificial general intelligence) are complex subjects with divergent viewpoints among technologists, philosophers, and business and political leaders. Being AI and BeingAInovel.com are fictional and artistic creations and do not offer realistic pictures about how AI should be used as a computational tool in the workplace, education, or similar applications. The underlying ideas are meant to satirize the muddled-headedness and exaggerated misconceptions about the most misunderstood phenomenon to come along since we began using telepathy to communicate.

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