With AI becoming a prevalent part of society, revisiting old sci-fi movies can be a visceral experience.

Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer stances against generative AI.

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As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine’s detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent in the results. And they weren’t alone. Other fiction magazines have also reported a ...

Generative models write stories, code, music, and art instantly, mirroring fictional machines that conjure creativity from ...

By Stelios ColocassidesWhat began as a business tool, then an everyday convenience, is now starting to resemble something far more unsettling: a force that may soon decide outcomes that humans no ...

My son and I went to see the movie Tron: Ares, this past week. I was excited to see this 2025 sequel, because the original Tron movie from 1982 is a classic and one of my ’80s sci-fi technology ...

Ted Chiang is perhaps the world’s most celebrated living science-fiction author. His short, carefully hewn stories explore how our inner worlds and our societies would react to unexpected rifts in the ...