![]() Animal rights activists will give way to robot rights activists. Not just in how we treat workers, but in how we judge our circles of empathy. I think the advent of robotics, sadly, is going to give us a chance to do so again. Humans have a habit of repeating our mistakes. This led to thoughts of human analogies: slavery, indentured servitude, the brutal work conditions of migrants on railroads and in factories. Then I wondered how long before we start overworking our machines without really caring about what we ask of them. Not long after setting up my first home robot, I started thinking of it as more than a machine it had a personality. ![]() ![]() “Machine Learning” is a story that I owe to my Roomba. Let’s start with one of the two new stories in Machine Learning: “Machine Learning.” What is it about and where did you get the idea for it? While it has three stories that are part of the same Silo series as Wool and Shift, it also has two new stories, as well fifteen others that have never been collected in a book before, any number of which, he says, could be the beginning of a new novel. Which bodes well for his new short story collection, Machine Learning: New And Collected Stories ( hardcover, paperback, digital). ![]() While sci-fi writer Hugh Howey is best known for his novels Wool, Shift, and Sand, those three books actually began life as short fiction that he then collected into those larger tomes. ![]()
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