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Sci-fi icon Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘there’s so much bad fiction about anthropomorphizing AI’

The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading, AI consciousness — and hope.
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  1. Anne Pichon
Author Kim Stanley Robinson with glasses and a black jumper photographed in Davis, CA, among trees in a field.

Kim Stanley Robinson is keen to focus on solving real-world problems. Credit: Carolyn Fong/Redux/eyevine

As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot like science fiction. A book that people often point to is Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020).

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Nature 636, 558-560 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-04116-4

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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