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‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity

Author Jeanette Winterson believes humanity is at a turning point, and that even under the shadow of big tech, the choice of how to proceed remains ours.

SourceThe Guardian AIAuthor: Aida Edemariam
‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity
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  • Winterson explored how AI might change our lives in her 2021 book 12 Bytes
  • Her 2007 novel The Stone Gods imagined a post-catastrophe world of robots and never-aging humans
  • She argues that everything is fiction until it becomes fact, so the future is not predetermined

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