{"id":187491,"date":"2024-04-16T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/australian-writers-have-been-envisioning-ai-for-a-century-here-are-5-stories-to-read-as-we-grapple-with-rapid-change"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:29:29","slug":"australian-writers-have-been-envisioning-ai-for-a-century-here-are-5-stories-to-read-as-we-grapple-with-rapid-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/australian-writers-have-been-envisioning-ai-for-a-century-here-are-5-stories-to-read-as-we-grapple-with-rapid-change","title":{"rendered":"Australian writers have been envisioning AI for a century. Here are 5 stories to read as we grapple with rapid change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-writers-have-been-envisioning-ai-for-a-century-here-are-5-stories-to-read-as-we-grapple-with-rapid-change2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this on NewsBreak:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Australians are <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/australians-are-concerned-about-ai-is-the-federal-government-doing-enough-to-mitigate-risks-221300\" rel=\"nofollow\"> nervous about AI<\/a>. Efforts are underway to put their minds at ease: advisory committees, consultations and regulations. But these actions have tended to be reactive instead of proactive. We need to imagine potential scenarios before they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we already do this \u2013 in literature.<\/p>\n<p>There is, in fact, more than 100 years\u2019 worth of Australian literature about AI and robotics. Nearly 2,000 such works are listed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austlit.edu.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> AustLit database<\/a>, a bibliography of Australian literature that includes novels, screenplays, poetry and other kinds of literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this on NewsBreak: Australians are nervous about AI. Efforts are underway to put their minds at ease: advisory committees, consultations and regulations. But these actions have tended to be reactive instead of proactive. We need to imagine potential scenarios before they happen. Of course, we already do this \u2013 in literature. There is, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}