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Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics)

paperback – April 11, 2019
by Mike Ashley
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ISBN-13: 9780712352420 ISBN-10: 0712352422
Publisher
British Library Publishing
Binding
paperback
Published
April 11, 2019
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
19.00×1.20×13.00 cm

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Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) by Mike Ashley. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780712352420.

Its a hazardous experiment, they all said, putting in new and untried machinery Caution beware the menace of the machine: a man is murdered by an automaton built for playing chess; a computer system designed to arbitrate justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings; an AI wreaks havoc on society after removing all censorship from an early form of the internet. Assembled with pieces by SF giants such as Isaac Asimov and Brian W Aldiss as well as the less familiar but no less influential input of earlier science fiction pioneers, this new collection of classic tales contains telling lessons for humankinds gradual march towards life alongside the thinking machine.