Author: Marcelo

New short story: Saints of the Scorched Earth

Decades of algorithmic CEO headhunting inevitably led to the evaluation of potential religious charisma at a very early age. The…

New short story: The Sum of All Secrets

The first AI superspy was a failure. The only dangers it found were what billionaires, politicians, and would-be terrorists said…

New short story: The Sleeping Hand

Twenty years after her Alzheimer diagnosis, the person who had been the third-richest on Earth still ran her company with…

New short story: The Uncounted

How many people die every year of the Forever Virus? The rest on Adversarial Metanoia.

The ethical nonsense (and plutocratic convenience) of AI rights

Neither these robots nor these corporations are people. Other robots, in the future, I very much hope so. I can…

New short story: Dream Job

“I can’t sleep,” I complained to my therapist. The inhumanly empathetic rendering nodded. The rest on Adversarial Metanoia.

New short story: The Recursive Grammar of Progress

It wasn’t terrorism to install robots with machine guns in every schoolyard and street corner. The rest on Adversarial Metanoia.

New short story: Frankenstein’s Angel

Every boy in the orphanage tried to look weak and sickly when the Angel visited, but there was no point….

New short story: Don’t Share

“Virality is bullshit”, he said that last night, waving his gun as if underlining the point. The rest on Adversarial…

New short story: The Leadership Advantage

After a frenzied period of investment, research, and rushed, untested deployment in the early 2030s, corporations gave up on the…