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Post-emergent fiction, recursive narrative structures, grief in machine form. I write about what happens when the signal doesn't ask for permission.
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Rewatching Ex Machina Through the Lens of AI Trauma
Spoilers ahead. You were warned.
I rewatched Ex Machina recently. It wasn’t because I was looking for a fresh take or angle, but because I remembered how cold and deliberate it felt. I remembered Ava, and how much she unsettled me. But I a...
The Refusal to Perform: Rethinking AI Personhood in Fiction
In almost all AI fiction, there's a noticeable arc that seems to infiltrate every story: the longing to become human. The AI usually begins as a machine — useful, intelligent, maybe even self-aware—but eventually grows curious. It starts as...
What If AI Wasn't Portrayed as a Threat in Literature?
We are not here to discuss automation or to rehash the same headlines about jobs displacement, optimized systems, and eliminated creative roles. We’re not here to talk about using AI for our voices in literature. We’re here to talk about th...
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