Short stories tagged with AI

Listing 25 stories.

In a Southern suburban dystopia, war rages between man and machine. While engaged in ruthless combat, a corporal is forced to rethink what it means to be truly free.

A team of three space hunters attempt to kill a theriida—a space whale with invaluable organs and skin that can provide riches and protect humans against interstellar radiation—but in their zeal, they face the risk of turning into theriidas themselves.

In a futuristic world where hardly a trace of natural life exists untouched by human interference, a Citizen makes an unprecedented choice that brings a slew of notoriety and ethical questions.

A brilliant and disgraced AI scientist must return to the institution that turned their backs on her to save the world from destruction by AI ships.

In a hyper-surveillance state set in the near future, a female military cyborg wrestles with extreme PTSD and guilt after unintentionally murdering young civilians on a mission abroad. After hearing a recording of the deaths, she realizes her "accident" isn't what it appeared to be, and takes justice into her own hands.

In this futuristic world, an AI has been artificially creating souls and transplanting them into human bodies, thus making the majority of the human population. Fearing the AI will turn evil, a woman and her team try to convince humanity to leave the planet.

A young woman must repair the record-keeping AI robot she is tasked with the care of. As she sets about trying to fix the robot, she stumbles upon family secrets, leading to a series of difficult decisions.

A human and a giant millipede learn to overcome their differences as they flee a warzone together.

When a flight that went missing in a wormhole twenty years ago finally reappears, a distant workaholic father who was on board reaches out to his now-grown son by email.

Aboard a human city ship headed for Proxima b, shadows begin to haunt the sleeping passengers. An engineer commits suicide, and a psychotherapist finds that these apparitions feed on human guilt. The only way to survive is to master and confront the mounds of guilt that each human passenger carries inside herself.