Science fiction is often known for big ideas and high-stakes plots that move quickly from one moment to the next. It's a genre that usually thrives on faced-paced storytelling that keeps readers ...

Michael Zerang plays his percussion rig at a rehearsal of The Left Hand of Darkness on Wednesday, December 17. Credit: Philip Montoro Born in Chicago in 1958, Michael Zerang began his career as a ...

Every science fiction lover jumped up and pointed at the screen, Leonardo DiCaprio style, when a certain book popped up in the Pluribus Season 1 finale. That book is none other than Ursula K. Le ...

The granddaddy (grandmommy? grandmoddy?) is The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin’s celebrated 1969 novel about the ambisexual inhabitants of the planet Gethen and the difficulty one human, ...

ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School administrators rushed ...

The rise of AI porn could change our expectations of relationships. The power of pornography doesn’t lie in arousal but in questions. What is obscene? What is ethical or safe to watch? We don’t have ...

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Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your ...