Fi-AI part 2
You can catch up and read my first post on this topic here. First, I’ve changed it from AI-Fi to Fi-AI. The former seems to be more about fiction written by AI whereas my goal is to identify books written by humans about AI. There is a Reddit community dedicated to this topic, which can be joined here. And thanks to loads of readers of the Reddit sci-fi community, many novels have been added since my starter list. So many, in fact, I have created a public Google Sheet to keep track. You can find that sheet here. Interested in being an editor of that list? Let me know. Have something you want added to the list? Leave a comment here or in the Fi-AI Reddit community. I’ve learned about so many books, many of which I have added to my to-read list. But I was curious. What was the first one? Who wrote the first novel that revealed artificial intelligence and when? I’m not sure this is correct. Please provide a comment if you have something earlier, but it looks like it was Erewhon written and published January 1, 1872 by Samuel Butler. The novel includes a section called “The Book of the Machines.” Butler takes the reader into a world where mechanical evolution is moving so fast that machines eventually develop consciousness, replicate, and subjugate humanity! Well done, Butler! Erewhon is the first in the Erewhon series. A close second is The First AI Rebellion Novel: The Wreck of the World which was written by William Grove under the pseudonym of Reginald Colebrooke Reade and published in 1889. Many consider this the first novel centered entirely on a revolt of sentient machines against the human race. The first novel with an AI central character was Metropolis, written in