--- title: What Science Fiction Tells Us About Our Changing... description: A science fiction fan traces how AI portrayal has shifted across five novels, from HAL 9000's distant black box in 2001: A Space Odyssey to emotionally... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Science Fiction Tells Us About Our Changing Relationship With AI | daily.dev og:description: A science fiction fan traces how AI portrayal has shifted across five novels, from HAL 9000's distant black box in 2001: A Space Odyssey to emotionally... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zN03Vj9dE.png og:image:alt: What Science Fiction Tells Us About Our Changing Relationship With AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Science Fiction Tells Us About Our Changing Relationship With AI **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A science fiction fan traces how AI portrayal has shifted across five novels, from HAL 9000's distant black box in 2001: A Space Odyssey to emotionally entangled companions in Klara and the Sun, identity-blurring replication in Bobiverse, environmental control in Dungeon Crawler Carl, and autonomous dominance in Providence. The author argues fiction's arc mirrors society's real shift toward casual, dependent, and agency-surrendering relationships with AI, and closes by asking readers to speculate what will feel normal with AI by 2050. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@5awtooth** · 0 upvotes > Read Neuromancer by William Gibson, that will give you a great perspective on AI. It's all about AI. New Apple series out soon. I read it in 1988 and pretty much everything is happening, the main AI is a data core in a space villa which orbits next to a space resort, sound familiar? Takes place during late Capitalism. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Surviving as a Human in the Age of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/surviving-as-a-human-in-the-age-of-ai-wqonnqrav) · DEV · 8 upvotes · 1 comments - [The Suffering Reader in the Age of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/the-suffering-reader-in-the-age-of-ai-8amot9kkn) · Medium · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a religion](https://daily.dev/posts/any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-a-religion-t8fu3peba) · Tech Lead Digest · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What Science Fiction Tells Us About Our Changing Relationship With AI","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T13:06:34.550Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T13:06:50.424Z","description":"A science fiction fan traces how AI portrayal has shifted across five novels, from HAL 9000's distant black box in 2001: A Space Odyssey to emotionally...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/314a5acf2d5600be90c46e4a7ec81e0d?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/314a5acf2d5600be90c46e4a7ec81e0d?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DEV","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DEV","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/devto","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"ai","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DEV","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What Science Fiction Tells Us About Our Changing Relationship With AI"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-science-fiction-tells-us-about-our-changing-relationship-with-ai-zn03vj9de","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Read Neuromancer by William Gibson, that will give you a great perspective on AI. 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