🚀The Dark Age: Casual encounters of the third kind

Hello, friends!

If you’ve been paying attention to the internet at all in the last year, you’ve probably heard people discussing AI, and what good or evil it brings to our technological shores. (One of my favorite newsletters is called AI Weirdness, and it’s often hilarious.)

Since The Dark Age features a widely-adopted AI, I’ve been following some of these developments with interest. The AI in my novel is present just about everywhere: It’s built into the spaceship that carries my characters away from Earth; it’s built into homes and cars all over the globe. People carry their AI in their ear, and most of them trust it implicitly. (This AI, Audrey, is named for my great-grandmother.)

I’ve been tinkering a bit with AI, seeing just how thorough it is. For example, in a conversation with an AI bot, I gave it a prompt: