Category Archives: A.I.

“Silo” as Tormented A.I. Captives

Posted on September 3, 2026 by williamjcobb

I’m glad to see the dangers of A.I. cropping up in pop fiction and film. I’ve used it myself, in such stories as “Camp America” (available here: see the website banner for link to the file). Continue reading →

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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” as Summer Movie Event

Posted on July 18, 2026 by williamjcobb

The place was packed. A group behind us were wearing togas (that looked like bed sheets “repurposed”). Excitement in the air! Continue reading →

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Review of “The A.I. Doc”: Dumb & Dumber Meet the Digital Overlords

Posted on April 23, 2026 by williamjcobb

The documentary filmmaker Roher may seem a bit dim as an interviewer but the tech-world savants he interviews know what they’re talking about, without dumbing it down too much, and have many insightful tidbits to add. Continue reading →

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“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” Review: Our A.I. Future Will Be a Gilded Cage, Maybe

Posted on March 13, 2026 by williamjcobb

Hollywood is rightfully worried about how A.I. fakes, perhaps in the (near) future, could disrupt it’s movie-making biz: In the meantime, A.I. is all over the big screen: Gore Verbinski’s new movie Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is right up that digital alley.  Continue reading →

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Ten Years Left of Humanity, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the A.I. Bomb: On Two Visions of the Upcoming A.I. Apocalypse: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” and Mustafa Suleyman’s “The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future”

Posted on January 12, 2026 by williamjcobb

So I recently read the somewhat-infamous bestseller by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (2025). It’s a white-knuckled warning about the imminent peril of ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). … Continue reading →

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