Claire Nicholls

AI is interesting because fiction has shown two versions of the future in the past.

You've got George Orwell's 1984, which was kind of this idea of totalitarianism.

And then you have Brave New World, which was an idea of contentment and pleasure and distraction being the thing that controls us.

But there's another kind of human motivation that AI taps into, which is just our love, addiction, and need for convenience.

And so I think that what I can see happening

is that, you know, AI sort of removes a lot of the friction to life and, you know, we're at kind of genuine risk of forgetting how to function without assistance, which is dependency, not oppression.

I guess we risk being helped into redundancy.

Yeah, look, it's five minutes into the future, really.

You know, we're, yeah, it's sort of...

AI has started to replace Jobs just faster than it has now.

So Jobs is starting to be replaced.

You know, they're still trying it out.

There's a scene where he has family therapy with his parents and an AI kind of analyst chatbot named Froido.

Yeah, there's self-driving cars on the road.

So it's really just five minutes from now.

No, no, it's not that.

I don't know if I'm that concerned.

I definitely... There are sort of taboos at the moment about people using AI to write books.

And, you know, there was just a big case recently about a novel that got pulled because they found AI.

But, I mean, knowing what I know about people, I think these taboos are going to last about five minutes.