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What a Novel About an AI Documenting the Last Human Says About Our Real Dystopia

The unreliable narrator of After World, the new novel from author Debbie Urbanski, is an AI tasked with writing a book about Sen, the last human on Earth. In this world, humanity is done. The world is moving on without us and Sen was born for a purpose: to watch the planet change itself without humanity. After World is a story about artificial intelligence, climate change, and what we can hope to leave behind for our children in a doomed future.  On today’s episode of Cyber, Emily and Matthew sit down with Urbanski to discuss all of it. Stories discussed in this episode: The original short story: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwvgeq/an-incomplete-timeline-of-what-we-tried" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried</a> Cyber Live is coming to YouTube.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/Motherboardtv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Subscribe here</a> to be notified. Subscribe to<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</a> or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.