Is AI the end of the human era?

Blazing Reader,

In James Barrat's doomsday book, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, he aptly describes the main theme and plot behind my forthcoming novel, All the Humans are Sleeping:

“A powerful AI system tasked with ensuring your safety might imprison you at home. If you asked for happiness, it might hook you up to a life support and ceaselessly stimulate your brain's pleasure centers. If you don't provide the AI with a very big library of preferred behaviors or an ironclad means for it to deduce what behavior you prefer, you'll be stuck with whatever it comes up with. And since it's a highly complex system, you may never understand it well enough to make sure you've got it right.”

Is AI the "end of the human era"? That's the question All of the Humans are Sleeping (to be followed by the sequel, All the Humans are Dying and All the Humans are Waking) tries to answer. The novel's on track for its September 11th release date. Until then, you might want to check out James Barrat's non-fiction book, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era at: https://blazingpinecone.com/shop/our-final-invention

John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/