WIRED talked to Author and tech thinker Hugh Howey about Silo’s long gestation, the recent wave of AI mania, and why everyone's got dystopia fever. 📸: Apple
I think that these are inevitable developments, but how we use them and approach them is what's not inevitable. We could be optimistic and hopeful and creative with these tools, or we can pull our hair out and be upset and stressed out about them.
A lot of people are afraid that AI will take their jobs. As an author, is there a part of you that’s like, “Well, to tell something to write a book in the style of Hugh Howey, it still has to know the work of Hugh Howey”? The reason I'm not scared is that when I got into writing, I never thought I'd make a living at it. I worked in a bookstore while I was trying to make it as a writer, and every week, thousands and thousands of books would come out. We couldn’t even order all of them for our bookstore. We'd go through catalogsThe idea that there was no competition and if I just wrote a book, I could make a living—that’s absurd.
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