The Malnourished Ministry of Relational AI

E. M. Forster’s 1909 short story “The Machine Stops” depicts a dystopian world of individuals kept apart from one another in pods. The culture Forster imagined discourages leaving one’s pod for embodied, human interaction, and—relieved of the need to work and having learned to frown upon original ideas—people entertain themselves by offering “lectures” on subjects using information Read more...…