

Yet other stories imagine AI as something truly posthuman, something so incredibly different from us in perception and ability as to be truly alien, no matter its origin. So many science fiction stories involving artificial intelligence place that intelligence into humanoid or human-like android bodies. One of the reasons I love science fiction is for how it asks us to truly confront our assumptions about the way things are, and whether that’s inevitable. I love reading science fiction, and you might expect me to open this review with an encomium of how science fiction helps us imagine a way into a better future.
