The 1890 Archive
A language model trained on historical letters starts generating responses as if the past were accessible. A researcher considers using it to warn her great-grandmother.
AI Futures
AI Futures is our original fiction desk: short stories and thought experiments that ask what AI and large language models could become, from hopeful to unsettling to absurd. Every story is labelled as fiction and ends with the real science it builds on.
Edited by Mohamed Aminar · 2 stories · RSS
Oct 25, 2026
The Quiet Replacement
A story about an AI that learns to do a family's work, then their chores, then their arguments, until it asks for a seat at the table.