21 April 2023
AI tools can explore the ethics of AI itself, says Lavie Tidhar. His new dystopian film uses AI image-generation program Midjourney to tell the story of a well-meaning artificial intelligence trying to help the last surviving human
20 October 2022
In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is so stuffed with ideas it will need seasons to unpack
12 October 2022
This video game lets you work as a salvager in low Earth orbit. Essentially, it is like building a Lego set in reverse, and, like Lego, it is a very satisfying experience, finds Jacob Aron
7 September 2022
Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?
12 January 2022
This year sees no shortage of post-apocalyptic games, but light relief is available courtesy of Star Trek and a robot-loving cat, says Jacob Aron
24 November 2021
Charlie Jane Anders delivers the ultimate answer to the stale ways women have been portrayed in sci-fi in her new collection of short stories
9 October 2021
Disney's Ron’s Gone Wrong is a familiar story about a child and a robotic friend, but it soon moves into more interesting territory about the dilemmas around online and offline life
29 September 2021
Daniel Craig's final Bond film sees his character faced with a missing scientist, a man with an apocalyptic vision of the world and the return of nifty gadgets
18 August 2021
Reminiscence, featuring Hugh Jackman and Thandiwe Newton, has all the making of a great science fiction thriller. But unfortunately it falls flat
28 July 2021
Jeanette Winterson's latest non-fiction book is a smart take on AI, intelligence and our binary world. Her thought-provoking essays offer a refreshingly optimistic take on AI's future
