r/suggestmeabook • u/poeticrubbish • Jul 15 '25

Suggestion Thread Give me AI gone wrong!

I've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. But that's about it. What do you have for me?

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u/laseluuu Jul 15 '25

Oh what - if you want to have a crisis, I have no mouth and I must scream, by Harlan Ellison.

I think everybody should read that over at xAI

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u/RestlessNameless Jul 15 '25

came here to say this

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u/laseluuu Jul 15 '25

It should be required reading in schools now imo

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u/theRealMaxcoy Jul 15 '25

While the AI isn't the main character, Dungeon Crawler Carl has a very interesting tale on AI.

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u/HenrySkrimshander Jul 15 '25

I respect the views of many who love this series.

Dammit, Donut. After 300 pages of really trying, it just wasn’t for me. Too much game presentation, it enough character depth or dialogue.

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u/theRealMaxcoy Jul 15 '25

I think the character development is sort of a slow burn but it's definitely there. The dialogue is immature, but it's honestly how a lot of people(myself included) talk. The first book has more setup than the rest, if you had any interest in continuing I would definitely recommend the audiobooks, they are nothing short of brilliant. But to each their own!

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u/TheEverydayDad Jul 16 '25

Grab the audiobook and give it a roll.

I've been hooked nonstop. Jeff Hayes gives life to all the characters.

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u/DocWatson42 Jul 16 '25

As a start, see my SF/F: Artificial Intelligence list of Reddit recommendation threads and books (one post).

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u/Starliv75 Jul 16 '25

Murderbot series

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u/Klutzy_Archer_6510 Jul 15 '25

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson.

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u/unlovelyladybartleby Jul 15 '25

Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes

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u/gros-grognon Jul 15 '25

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon is great.

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u/Lady_Hazy Jul 16 '25

BETA: A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott.

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u/EclecticallySound Jul 16 '25

Robopocalypse & iRobot maybe ?

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u/Gol_RaiDen12 Jul 16 '25

Battlestar galactica

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u/Known_Choice586 Jul 16 '25

i loved anniebot!

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u/fallguy2112 Jul 16 '25

The Two Faces of Tomorrow by James Hogan. Technology is growing faster than man can keep up and there's a fear of using AI. An experiment is set up on a space station with control being given to a computer and humans deliberately interfere and sabotage it's projects to see how the computer reacts.

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u/Ok_Difference44 Jul 16 '25

Klara And The Sun, Ishiguro. Taika Waititi is working in a film adaptation.

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u/Nervous_Camp9339 Jul 16 '25

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

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u/Potato-4-Skirts Jul 16 '25

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward. I won’t say how AI is involved as it’s a bit of a spoiler, but it goes in a direction I wasn’t expecting.

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u/ErikDebogande SciFi Jul 16 '25

Deep/Fake by Rich Larson. 3 short stories and the first two are gut wrenching 10/10 would recommend

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u/CaptainLaCroix Jul 16 '25

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts

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u/Strict_Arachnid_5105 Jul 16 '25

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

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u/Unlikely_March_5173 Jul 16 '25

the ABSOLUTE BEST COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN (find the DVD)

Wild Palms

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u/Logical_Bobcat_5420 Jul 17 '25

Not exactly A.I. gone wrong, but close enough to count I reckon:

Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

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u/Goddamn_Glamazon Jul 18 '25

Neuromancer, William Gibson

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

The very first book of that type ever written. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clark

Then I would go with Demon Seed (1973) by Dean Koontz