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Cyberpunk legend Bruce Sterling tackles the rise of artificial intelligence [1]

['David Pescovitz']

Date: 2023-06-30

Bruce Sterling is a cyberpunk fiction and nonfiction pioneer who wrote such classics as Schismatrix, The Difference Engine, The Hacker Crackdown, and was a frequent contributor to Wired, Mondo 2000, and, yep, the bOING bOING print 'zine. Bruce has a razor-sharp wit and is a master at popping hype balloons surrounding emerging technologies. It was only a matter of time before he tackled the rise of AI.

As fellow cyberpunk Rudy Rucker tweeted, "Bruce uses his trademark cyberpunk move: (a) Explain an ultramodern tech development. (b) *Sneer* at it."

From Bruce's article in Newsweek:

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