Autonomous: A Novel

von Annalee Newitz

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"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."―Neal Stephenson

"Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV―and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling."―William Gibson

When anything can be owned, how can we be free

Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.

Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack’s drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand.

And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

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2. Okt. 2022

A human and a robot are having a conversation: "Where are you from, Paladin?" "I suppose I am from the Kangu Robotics Foundry in Cape Town." "No, no, no," Eliasz shook his head violently, then rapped his knuckles on Paladin's lower back. "I mean where are you from originally? Where is your brain from?" The robot in this story is a "human-equivalent." He will be given autonomy after 10 years of working for humans. I suppose I should not be reading this book because I do not believe in the humanity of robots. They are machines. Nothing more than a computer to be reprogrammed when necessary. The author is not making any arguments for why robots should be considered equivalent to humans, she is just saying it. Unfortunately, I am not buying it. Also, this book speaks of human slavery. But if they have ROBOTS .... why would they need HUMAN slaves????? That is just cruel and evil and unnecessary. I can't buy that part of the story at ALL. And making the argument for freedom of robots, when humans are slaves is just stupid! Who cares more about robot suffering than human suffering? I just can't have any concern for that! (I guess I better go and cook dinner for my keyboard, since it helped me type this review.)