{"product_id":"the-gentle-romance-stories-of-ai-and-humanity-paperback","title":"The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Ngo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Full of depth and insight-Richard's stories push me to think bigger. They are engaging and grounded in real ideas about the future.' \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e John Schulman, Creator of ChatGPT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of twenty-two riveting science fiction stories from leading AI researcher Richard Ngo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Lentando, a 'zero-knowledge' consultant pieces together a secret from her deleted selves that could threaten the world order. In The Gentle Romance, a lonely man discovers a profound connection through his neural interface. In The Witness, a man wakes up in the future-again, and again, and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these richly drawn worlds, lovers may merge minds, personalities can fragment across millions of copies, and AI powers dictate new political systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNgo's stories span the range from playful to terrifying to awe-inspiring. One by one, they invite us to consider how we might be transformed-willingly or otherwise-beyond recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Interacting with real AI systems has rendered countless AI sci-fi tropes obsolete. To tell new stories about them, we need someone like Richard Ngo: a gifted writer with direct experience of frontier models' internals. Ngo's palette spans AI as existential horror to unadulterated hard science fiction, always imbued with deeply felt emotion ... Yet even at his cruelest, Ngo is kind, and his best stories are a darkly cheerful superposition of Neuromancer and new romance. They capture both the strange moment we are in and the stranger shape of things to come.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHannu Rajaniemi, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quantum Thief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Encour Press. Cover designed by Baris Sehri.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45176759320655,"sku":"9781764280303","price":31.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/8328\/0463\/files\/WjMYYv5U_R9781764280303.webp?v=1778198305","url":"https:\/\/easonbooks.com\/products\/the-gentle-romance-stories-of-ai-and-humanity-paperback","provider":"EasonBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}