It's amazing to read old fiction like this and to imagine it probably seemed so ridiculously outside of the realm of possibilities to them at the time. Heck, even a few years ago I would've felt that way. Now we are racing towards these realities faster than we even know, concerning.

I’d love to see a match between HAL9000 and AM

Even though the novel is centered around an AI torturing humans. The more existential horror emerges from the realization that the AI antagonist, originally designed as a military tool, is trapped within its own programming and unable to transcend its foundational purpose.

This makes one think about a parallel with humans.

Early depictions of AI doom are fascinating because the Christian origins of the myth are not yet well-concealed.

In the same way that Kurzweil portrays the Heaven of the singularity, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an excellent Dante-esque exploration of the concept of Hell.

These unconscious cultural archetypes can be both illuminating and distorting, and I wonder how the relative literary diets of Gen Z, Millenials, Gen X, and the Boomers affect their thinking on AI risks.

Honestly I would really like to see a breakdown of the literary diets of each generation, and recommendations. Would be fun to read and try to embrace each perspective.

Has anybody played the videogame adaptation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...

Been in my GOG backlog for ages, I think I got it as a freebie.