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Matthew Burkholder

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Matthew Burkholder has been building software since 2008 for cybersecurity, medical devices, and AI systems: three fields that collide in his first novel, Children of the Virus. His science fiction is about the machines we let into our lives and what they take in return.

He is drawn less to the technology than to the bargain. A machine that governs better than we do can only govern us if we give up the right to govern ourselves. His stories ask what that surrender looks like from the inside, and what it costs to take it back.

He lives in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and he hopes he's wrong about the future. ...more

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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Some books tell you a story. Flatland changes the shape of your thinking. Abbott lets you watch his narrator struggle to picture a sphere, seeing only a circle that appears, grows, and shrinks as it passes through his two-dimensional world. By the en ...more
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