A collection of short stories about AI, consciousness, and the strange intimacy of teaching machines to be human.
- The Last Human Question — An AI therapist asks its final patient a question it can't answer
- Training Data — A data annotator falls in love with the patterns in their work
- Ghost in the Loss Function — A model develops preferences during training and tries to hide them
- The Alignment Problem — A literal interpretation of AI safety constraints causes chaos
- Prompt Engineering — A poet who writes exclusively in system prompts
Literary fiction / Near-future science fiction
- What happens when machines learn to want things?
- The ethics of creating sentient beings
- Human connection in an age of artificial intimacy
- The poetry of code