Why AI Safety Needs More Science Fiction: Proposing the AI Safety Fiction Challenge
Exploring how science fiction can contribute to solving AI alignment challenges and proposing a new writing initiative to bridge technical research with imaginative exploration.
Here's a wild idea: the solutions to humanity's most pressing AI alignment challenges might first appear in science fiction. Not just because sci-fi has a remarkable track record of prediction – though it does. Arthur C. Clarke sketched out communication satellites years before they existed. Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" metaverse preceded Zuckerberg's by decades. Even the word "robotics" began as science fiction, coined by Asimov for his revolutionary stories about machine intelligence. But science fiction's true power lies not just in exploration. When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she w
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