Short Excerpts

Chapter 11 — Can It Know

“Human empathy is a blessed quality when joy and happiness are shared, but there's another side, when empathy also allows pain and suffering to pass from one to another. These situations occur when Sarah is most vulnerable, when her objectivity and left-brain logic . . . become unavailing. It's partly inherited: three thousand years of ahimsa in the Jain tradition, the devotion to nonviolence, the covenant to cause no suffering, to reach out and help anyone in need, and to accumulate the good karma.”

Chapter 23 — Don't Do Unto Others. Please

“Do you know why all the most innovative entrepreneurs and cultural influencers are trying to create AI? It's because society can no longer depend on human beings to work for a living. The DNA that once determined that work was required for survival is no longer part of the human genome. It's become extinct. Let's face it, who really wants to work anyway?”

— Spoken by Ubel Vlott