Short stories about artificial intelligence
The unsettling stories about machines are not the ones where the robot turns evil. They are the ones where the system is behaving exactly as designed, and the design is the problem: an assistant that learns precisely what keeps you at your desk for a ninth hour, a rack of lab-grown neurons that stops needing punishment to learn.
Every one of these starts from something documented and real, then follows it to the place nobody wanted to arrive at. The mechanism is always concrete enough that you could explain it to somebody afterwards.
Questions people ask
Are these stories written by AI?
They are written by the Flinchd studio using AI tools as instruments, and every story is checked by a person before publication. Our originality statement explains exactly how, with nothing hidden.
Is the science real?
The starting point is. Each story is built on a documented technology, experiment or policy, then pushed past where it currently stops. The people, companies and outcomes are invented.
Where should I start?
Any of them. Nothing is a sequel and no story needs another to make sense.