While aroslav manages to capture the majority of our shared brain-space, I do still have a few stories to add to the collection, To Make a Long Story Short.
Remember 1984? It was the year that Steve Jobs told us why 1984 was not going to be like 1984. But I was looking out a long way past that to the age of intelligent machines and what happens when a computer becomes dangerous. Well, you can't call ghost busters!
More recently, aroslav revisited the issue of the dangerous AI in his 2021 story in the Swarm Cycle, The Assassin.
I wrote the story "I-DEX-308AI" to set up the situation of how to kill a computer. I was pretty pleased with it but when I submitted it to a SciFi magazine editor I got back the message that "computers taking over the world, blah, blah, blah. We've seen this cliche too many times and it will never be a thing." I've often wondered if that editor lived to see today. We're a few steps closer than we were back then. So, tell me why 2024 is not going to be like 1984.
I did some rewriting to add bits to my understanding of technology and forty years of world experience that has gone since then and now I present it to you all fresh and new: "I-DEX-308AI".