On human expendability: AI takeover in Clarke’s Odyssey and Stross’s Accelerando

This paper discusses how Arthur C. Clarke’s four-volume Odyssey series (1968–1997) and Charles Stross’s Accelerando (2005) relate to humanity’s narcissistic injuries. Here, powerful AIs threaten the self-perception of humanity, which intuitively assumes that it holds a central position in the univer...

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