Never give artificial intelligence the nuclear codes
21 min
Somehow, she knew this time would come," Tiya Miles writes. "The sweltering heat and receding lakes, the melting away of civil society and political stability, the light-year leaps in artificial intelligence—Octavia Butler foresaw them all." Here, she reflects on why we need Butler's conception of 'histofuturism' now more than ever. Read by Sharon McCune.