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quoted The Iron Garden Sutra by A.D. Sui (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)

A.D. Sui: The Iron Garden Sutra (Hardcover, 2026, Erewhon Books)

A monk joins a science team in exploring a long-lost spaceship, uncovering its dark and …

Maybe it was unethical to carry an AI in one’s mind after all, to deprive it of its own body, its own will, a means for it to act on the world. A station AI could boot you out of an airlock if it so pleased. Ship AI systems could fight, destroy entire planets if they so desired, if they were pushed to. What could VIFAI do if it was mistreated? Maybe Iris had been far crueler than he had ever realised.

— The Iron Garden Sutra by  (The Cosmic Wheel, #1) (16%)

replied to Barbarius's status

@Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog It might just be me, but I am willing to separate in my mind the llm airquotes ai of 2026 and the magical ai of science fiction. It may be the same word, but they don't occupy the same function and I also don't feel like there's a line between the two explicitly in this book (as compared to Counterweight).

replied to enne📚's status

@picklish@books.theunseen.city oh me too. I love a good SciFi AI, and I'm aware of the "AI" as a marketing term for LLMs, but I guess I was just surprised at my own sudden-and-now-different reaction.

When I thought about it longer, I even realised that I didn't think about it the same way with recent reads, such as ART in the Murderbot series.

What a time to be alive!