Book Review: Artificial Bodies: How Machines Replace People, by Remmelt Ellen

My day-job involves responsible AI and my interests lie in speculative fiction, so this was an obvious choice to read.

What to Expect

A pamphlet-style work that’s hard to classify, blurring the lines between present reality and dystopian science fiction. The author examines some of the (very real, unfortunately) risks around present day Artificial Intelligence and BigTech (FAANG) approaches, but then continues painting a path into a Skynet-like world, where machines have taken over the...