The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world
Ariel S. Winter
Simon & Schuster
WHEN AI that is truly sentient finally emerges , the big question is how humans will fare. Will machines try to hunt us to extinction, as in the Terminator films , or will their omnipotence mean life for humans can be the kind of extended party of Iain M. Banks’s Culture series ?
In Ariel S. Winter’s The Preserve , the robots have reached a stage somewhere in the middle. The book is set in the not-too-distant future, when human populations have dwindled …