AI: Taking Over

In the first of her series of short stories, Clara explores the future and our relationship with AI. Where will it take us and can we survive?

2025

Is AI taking over the world? Well, not right now - but probably at some point soon. 

It can already recognise ordinary people’s faces and can tell you what they do for a living and even where they live. Soon, we will be living in a world of doom, where robots will control the world. If you think the world is already bad enough - then you’ve got a surprise coming your way…

2055

Today I woke up from my airbed and chose my desired look with the “Chooseyourlook 2.0”. I went with outfit 350b. Today I felt like going to Ohio so I boarded the “Airsoar model 54” and 5 minutes later I arrived. Oh my days, the VR beach looked amazing!

3000

The robots have gone crazy!!! They are destroying everything, they are dropping bombs and nobody can control them and then the world has come to a stop… How on Earth are we gonna live? This is so confusing, not even the fridges work. There is no way we can live without electricity. How are we supposed to heat our food, go out or basically do anything that isn’t sleeping or staring into space.

0000

We have gone back to the stage the Earth was 4.5 billion years ago and have to figure out how to live without electricity. There is one twist though: we now have control of the world, we can do anything we want to, we can rewrite history and eliminate all the evil done. We must not let anything bad happen. We have to make a plan.  I spent the whole night doing exactly that and now I finally have one.