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What a Novel About an AI Documenting the Last Human Says About Our Real Dystopia CYBER

    • Technology

The unreliable narrator of After World, the new novel from author Debbie Urbanski, is an AI tasked with writing a book about Sen, the last human on Earth. In this world, humanity is done. The world is moving on without us and Sen was born for a purpose: to watch the planet change itself without humanity. After World is a story about artificial intelligence, climate change, and what we can hope to leave behind for our children in a doomed future. 
On today’s episode of Cyber, Emily and Matthew sit down with Urbanski to discuss all of it.
Stories discussed in this episode:
The original short story: An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried
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The unreliable narrator of After World, the new novel from author Debbie Urbanski, is an AI tasked with writing a book about Sen, the last human on Earth. In this world, humanity is done. The world is moving on without us and Sen was born for a purpose: to watch the planet change itself without humanity. After World is a story about artificial intelligence, climate change, and what we can hope to leave behind for our children in a doomed future. 
On today’s episode of Cyber, Emily and Matthew sit down with Urbanski to discuss all of it.
Stories discussed in this episode:
The original short story: An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried
Cyber Live is coming to YouTube. Subscribe here to be notified.
Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

53 min

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