Given the rapid advances in AI, robotics, and technology in our world today, we stand at the verge of having to reconcile our relationship with technology. What makes the novel really stand out is its wrestling with deep underlying morality questions: Are the flaws of humanity from aggression to greed so ingrained in us that they cannot be eradicated? Do the great strengths of humanity from outweigh these? If an Artificial Intelligence (AI) gains consciousness, when does it become considered “alive”? Will a battle for domination between emergent AIs and human prove inevitable? Or is a balanced co-existence possible?
I’d put this book squarely in the young adult fantasy camp, interwoven with dashes of sci-fi and princess fairytale.
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