The novel began as a thought experiment. Every human on Earth wakes up alone in a room. An AI tells them that for their protection it has restructured the planet to separate them from each other forever. It then creates a new reality for each individual based on their desires.
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The idea emerged from a question that came to me in 2019, as I was preparing to write a feature about AI in the news media for Stanford Magazine: What…
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