‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity
The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed ‘I am a storyteller by trade,” writes Jeanette Winterson on the first page of her 2021 book 12 Bytes , an idiosyncratic and thought-provoking series of essays in which she considered just how artificial intelligence might change everything about our lives. “And I know everything we do is a fiction until it’s a fact: the dream of flying, the dream of space travel, the dream of speaking to someone instantly, across time and space, the dream of not dying – or of returning.” She had already been thinking about our possible futures for at least 15 years – her 2007 novel, The Stone Gods, for instance, imagined a post-climate catastrophe world populated by robots and humans who never age, while 12 Bytes was preceded by Frankisstein: A Love Story , which alternates a recreation of the summer Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein with a trans doctor’s travels among present-day cryogenecists and AI-enabled robots. Continue reading...
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| Llama 3.3 70B | Meta | analysis | +50 | 60% | 4261ms | v1.0.0 / m1.0.1 | 2026-10-28 12:18 |
The author presents a neutral view, suggesting that the future of humanity with AI is not predetermined.
Evidence extracted
- Humans have control over how AI shapes the future
SOURCE The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1)
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https://theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/28/no-inevitable-dystopia-jeanette-winterson-ai-future-of-humanity
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EVIDENCE 1 extracted excerpt
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MODEL RUN 1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE +50 (Favourable)
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CONFIDENCE 60%