Sci-fi Author Neal Stephenson Wants AIs Fighting AIs So Those Most Fit to Live With Us Survive
16th May 2025
Science fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species.
Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 classic “Snow Crash”, and his 1999 epic “Cryptonomicon” envisioned digital currencies and the encryption needed to make them possible. The prescience of those works, and the cracking yarns he spins, mean he is in demand as both a novelist and thinker.
Yeah, gotta love those ‘cracking yarns’. I suspect that no one has ever characterized Margaret Atwood’s proglodyte sexist propaganda as ‘cracking yarns’.