The Love Makers

✍ Scribed by Aifric Campbell

• Book ID: 112181563
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 933 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781912685837

✦ Synopsis

How artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire: a philosophical thriller and essays.
A chance encounter between two women and a road trip into the future: It's Christmas Eve, and Scarlett, banker-turned-technologist, is leaving a secret underground lab to catch the last flight that will get her home in time to open presents with her three-year-old son. She offers a lift to a young woman in distress, who shares her intimate life story as they drive to the airport. These revelations will have devastating consequences for both of them.

The Love Makers is a philosophical thriller about female friendship, class, motherhood, women, and work—and how artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire.
Aifric Campbell combines her novel with essays from leading scientists and commentators who examine what's at stake in our human-machine relationships. What is our future as friends,...