Encore Episode: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT

For our summer vacation, we're re-upping the first in our "Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction" series from 2023, about how Silicon Valley appropriates and misinterprets science fiction. Silicon Valley executives claim to be inspired by SF, but mostly they use it retroactively to justify their products, often missing the more complicated, nuanced ideas embedded in the original stories. In this episode, we tackled the hype cycle around A.I., which borrows liberally from the post-scarcity, post-human visions of Iain M. Banks in his Culture novels. It's time for … the Culture vs. ChatGPT !

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Encore Episode: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT is an episode from Our Opinions Are Correct by Annalee Newitz.

This episode is 56:25 long.

This episode was published on Sep 4, 2025.

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