with every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it.

engineers need to understand that their profession embeds ethical choices into products that make life-changing decisions,

How can we maintain cultural diversity in a world dominated by machines?

From the modern submarine to the laser gun, and from mobile phones to CRISPR, scientists will readily admit they got direct inspirations from fiction. Imagination indeed shapes the world.

in order for deep learning to function well, the following are required: massive amounts of relevant data, a narrow domain, and a concrete objective function to optimize.

the greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.

AI, like most technologies, is inherently neither good nor evil.

AI engineers should be trained with a set of standard principles—like an adapted physician’s Hippocratic oath;

We wished to represent how individuals from disparate cultures and industries and with different identities would react to the future shock induced by AI.