Future Tense Fiction

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Each month, Future Tense Fiction will bring you a dramatic telling of a short story exploring how tech that's emerging today could dramatically reshape tomorrow. Science journalist Maddie Stone will then have a conversation with the author about what inspired their writing, and their vision of the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Future Tense Fiction

Episodes (7)

Sep 2, 2023 Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House
Jul 29, 2023 Could a Robot Be Your Dog’s Best Friend?
Jun 24, 2023 Who Gets to Escape the Climate Crisis?

Future Tense Fiction

Sep 2, 2023
2¾ hours
57 MB

On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, host Maddie Stone talks to Janelle Shane about her short story “The Skeleton Crew.” The House of A.I. is a next-level haunted house: In it, a suite of advanced A.I.s read visitors’ facial expressions to generate perfectly tailored scares. Or at least, that’s what the marketing materials want you to believe. It turns out, the house is actually operated by a group of underpaid gig workers, tasked with posing as spooky A.I.s as they guide visitors through the mansion. When two gunmen sneak into...

Future Tense Fiction

Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House

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