The seduction of AI in iPhuck 10
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52340/lac.2024.31.15Keywords:
automata, AI, technologyAbstract
Automata and the debate around them have been around since immemorial times: from gold and clay-made entities that came to life through divine breath to robots endowed with artificial intelligence. Viktor Pelevin imagines in iPhuck 10 a society where sexual automata are a norm and Artificial Intelligence is seeking to overthrow the statu quo of humans.
Sexual desire and sexual behaviour become in the novel a means of manipulation all in the name of power and knowledge
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