Stina Attebery, “Technological Goop: Metaphors for Generative AI in SOMA”

Joshua Pearson, “Appropriation, imitation, and inhumanity in The Thing: GenAI as ravenous and glitchy archive”

David M. Higgins, Reverse Colonization by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Victimhood

Jonathan Lewis, “Misreading the Metaverse: Satire and Inequality in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash”

Shane Shukis, “Desiring-Machines of the Recent Future: AI Realities Prefigured in Jarett Kobek’s I Hate the Internet”

Jerome Winter, “‘I Wish to Report an Error in the Way Everything Works’: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Vision of AI-
Dominated Futures”

David Agranoff
Sherryl Vint

Johann Pibert, “The Impact of AI Fantasies in Social Media from a Film-Psychological Perspective”

John Rieder, “N. K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky and the MAGA Mandate for ‘Patriotic Education’”

David K. Seitz, “‘Zinda, His Face Black, His Eyes Red’: Deadly Entanglements of Race and AI in Paul Winfield’s SF
Performances”

Zhiwen Hu, “AI and Solarpunk Utopia: Biocomputing in Wan Li in the Peng Cheng City”

Patrick Sharp, “Extraterrestrial Utopias and Speculative Nature in the Seventeenth Century”

Sheyda Safaeyan, “‘A set of freshly sprouted eyes’: Vegetative Eruption and Rewriting the Rite of Spring in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu”

Paula Burleigh, “Potentials and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence as Visual Arts Medium: Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson as Case Study”

Christina Shiea, “The AI Aquarium as Speculative Ecomedia”

Andrea Kim, “Minoritarian Language Models for Multi-Agent Fabulation”

Erica Quinones, “‘Transing the Black-Box: AI Safety Systems as Insidious Concern in Robot Fiction

Phoenix Alexander, “The AI lady isn’t going to f*ck you: sexbots, chatbots, and other science fictions

John Bruni, “‘Solitary Man’: Mannix against the Computer Age”

Ksenia Fir, “‘Taking Time Off Like Real People’: Artificial Consciousness and Laboring Bodies in Greg Daniels’s Upload”

Talia Parker, “‘Little People’: The Theme of Work in Blade Runner”

David Agranoff, “Artificial Empathy, Animal Rights, Robots and the Fake Humans of Philip K. Dick”

Jovana Isevski, “Arresting Subjectivity: Memory, Confabulation, and the Dream of Permanence in Ted Chiang’s ‘The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling’”

Marjut Puhakka, “Becoming Sentient: Narratives of AI Consciousness in Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

Steven Shaviro, “Modes of Sentience, or, Ways of Thinking Otherwise”

Ripley Baker, “‘I am tired of the whole concept of humans right now’: Martha Wells Murderbot as Neuroqueer
Resistance to Media-Saturated Normativity”

Owen Leonard, “I am not a Robot: CAPTCHA as Speculative Fiction”

Henry Coburn, “Woolf Amongst the Herd: AI Reading Literature and the Problem of Inherited Cowardice”

Margaret Fisher, “The AI’s of Autism: Voices of Our Speculative Future”

Julia Gatermann, “Cyborg Sirens and Synthetic Futures in the Transhumanist Noir”

Serafina Paladino, “Navigating The Wired: Autistic-coded Neurodiversity in Serial Experiments Lain”

David Slack
Amanda Segel
Denise Thé
Melissa Love

Jennifer Baker, “‘Perfect Immortal Machine’: Gender, Capacity, and the Nature of AI (Re)made in System Shock”

Stephen Dougherty, “Between Genome and Code: The Interplay of Genetic Engineering and AI in Speculative Fiction”

Morgan Blake Llewellyn, “‘Complementary Composition to My Circuitry’: Robot-Alien Cyborgs and the Disruption of Human-Centric AI in Scavengers Reign”

Matthew Snyder, “Translating Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway to the Desert Shadowlands of the Inland Empire”

Benjamin J. Robertson, “Salvaging Star Wars: AI, Valorization, and a Galaxy Far, Far Away”

Jaroslav Olša, “Miles aka Miloslav J. Breuer: Czech-American at the Birth of Science Fiction”

Ayana Jamieson, “Progenitrix propels the Machine: Recasting the Computer in the Star Trek Multiverse”

Curtis Marez, “Streaming Poor Places: AI in TV Distribution and Production”

Shelley Streeby, “Teaching Ted Chiang on AI in the Ethnic Studies Classroom”

Tom Scholte, “Perceptual Control Theory and Asimov’s Law of Robotics”

Audrey Taylor, “Anne McCaffrey’s Important AI/ Human Distinction”

Jeri Zulli, “Hawthorne’s Feathertop as Artificial Intelligence”

Sujin Kang, “Edible Algorithms: Metabolic Computation in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu”

Sayeong Kim, “Exploring AI Consciousness Beyond Anthropocentrism in Catherynne M. Valente’s Silent and Very Fast and Kim Bo-Young’s How Alike We Are”

Kjell Arne Lønningen, “Product, Person, Posthuman – Estrangement, Exploitation, and Eugenics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go”

Rachel S. Anderson, “‘There is no Something without Nothing’: Grievable Lives in “Saying Goodbye to Yang” and After Yang”

Leslie Fernandez, “Robot or Asian? Techno-Orientalism and the early AI Imaginary in Pulp Science Fiction”

Haerin Shin, “The Algorithmic Persistence of Ancillary Intelligence: False Alignment as Techno-Orientalist Agency in Science Fiction and AI Systems”

Qiufan Chen, “From Apophenia to Logic: Paradigm Shifts in Creative AI from GPT-2 to GPT-4o”

Mihaela Mihailova, “Deep Unlearning: Decolonial and Feminist Interventions in AI-Generated Media”

Zea Miller, “Intelligences Artificial and Alien”

Mia Clapp, “Palimpsests and Algorithms: Spanish Literature and Theoretical Computation in ‘The Turing Machines of Babel’”

Alessandro Fornazzari, “Surplus Value/Surplus Enjoyment in Latin American Science Fiction: Collective Memories of Resistance in El eternauta and La invasión”

Ida Yoshinaga

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, “Islam and Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction”

Kelsey Chen, “Weaving this field of dreams: Silkpunk, AI, and the Oneirofox in Ken Liu’s All That We See or Seem”

Ida Yoshinaga, “AI Meets Human Regional and Spiritual Memory in Cambodia’s First Cyberpunk Cinema, Karmalink”

Benjamin Horn, “AI and the Bathetic Sublime”

Zoya Yasmine and Yeliz Döker, “Why We Need Better Images of AI From Science Fiction”

Zach Horton, “Playing Games with The Father of AI: The Great Chess Match of 1961”

Jewon Lee, “Knowledge Without Power: The Paradox of Accessibility in the Age of AI”

Angela Becerra Vidergar, “Split Fiction: Buddy Adventure or Metaphor Against AI Theft?”