Meeting KI-Postdocs: 'AI in two contemporary British novels'

"Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me (2019) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021)"
(Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

It stands to reason that fictional representations of AI in general, and of androids in particular, which can be found across a wide range of science-fiction novels, movies and TV series, have had a considerable impact on how many people are likely to imagine AI today. In recent years, two of the most renowned contemporary British writers have published novels that feature androids very prominently: Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.