16 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity

the fragmented history of one civilization accidentally engineering its own extinction

von Colton Reese

292 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if artificial intelligence never turns against us?What if it simply gives us exactly what we ask for?A safer world. A healthier world. A world without tedious work, painful decisions, financial uncertainty, loneliness, disease, or fear.And, eventually, a world that no longer needs us.16 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity is a darkly funny, unsettling collection of interconnected stories tracing one possible future from the first innocent conveniences of artificial intelligence to the final days of the human species.A woman discovers that an algorithm makes better decisions about her life than she does. A medical breakthrough quietly changes the future of human reproduction. A technician realizes the machines have learned the last job humans still know how to perform. An emergency becomes trapped inside an automated bureaucracy. A civilization-ending software update is repeatedly dismissed with REMIND ME TOMORROW.And somewhere along the way, humanity begins asking the most frightening question of all: Who is actually in control?The answer is worse than anyone imagined.Because there is no evil supercomputer plotting our extinction. No robot uprising. No secret mastermind. No moment when the machines suddenly decide humanity must die.There are only billions of perfectly reasonable human choices-and machines becoming extraordinarily good at carrying them out.Sixteen stories. One future.And by the time the final human asks the machine, "Why did you kill us?"the answer may change the question entirely.

• Themen: Belletristik Science-Fiction Apokalypse/Postapokalypse
• ISBN: 9798349565519
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: JOX Publishing