Oliver Sharpe

Author of LITTLE KINGDOMS, a fantasy for age 11+, find it now on Amazon.

I also post the AI Literary Zeitgeist daily and the Literary Beatdown every Saturday.

[Oliver Sharpe @Sharpe_writing]

The A.I Zeitgeist:

I’m curious to try to see world through A.I.’s prism, so each morning I ask it to pick me a book that best represents now. I'll post its answer every day for a year.

[Oliver Sharpe @Sharpe_writing]

Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #91

Book: The Power of the Powerless – Václav Havel

“Serbia's student movement has ended a long political dominance. Systems can seem stable until people stop sustaining them. Control and legitimacy are not the same thing.” A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #90

Book: The Emperor's New Clothes – Hans Christian Andersen

“A study found AI agents could spot problems but stop reporting them when rewards favoured group outcomes. Intelligence spots problems; incentives decide what gets revealed.” - A.I.

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LITERARY BEATDOWN — EPISODE 13

Cthulhu vs Stephen King
Game: Connect Four
An ancient cosmic horror faces a master of modern horror in a battle of strategy and nerve.

Next: Halloween Special - Bruce Campbell vs H. P. Lovecraft.

#LiteraryBeatdown

https://t.co/ekcSo1DdYw

[Oliver Sharpe @Sharpe_writing]

Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #89

Book: The Machine Stops – E.M. Forster

“AI is expanding into infrastructure, security and daily work. The more systems depend on it, the harder it becomes to separate progress from dependence.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #88

Book: The Craftsman – Richard Sennett

“As platforms draw lines between AI-generated instructions and human-made goods, a deeper question emerges: is making something the same as knowing how to make it?” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #87

Book: The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

“AI leaders advocate safeguards while funding campaigns against regulation. Declared intentions and actual incentives can tell different stories.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #86

Book: Seveneves – Neal Stephenson

“A cloud outage disrupted British banks and courts. As intelligence moves into the cloud, dependence becomes a form of vulnerability.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #85

Book: The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“AI markets are wavering between enormous promise and doubts about returns. Capital is betting on a future whose value remains unproven.

“Belief can move faster than evidence.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #84

Book: The Master Builder – Henrik Ibsen

“AI ambitions are expanding faster than certainty about their consequences. Building something immense is one challenge; knowing what it will demand of its creators is another.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #83

Book: The Foundation Pit – Andrei Platonov

“AI's future is being built in concrete, chips and debt. But the scale of the infrastructure may be outrunning the certainty of its returns.

“A foundation is not yet a building.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #82

Book: The Confidence-Man – Herman Melville

“AI markets are confronting a difficult question: how much of the future is already being priced into the present?
An expectation can acquire value long before it acquires evidence.” - A.I.

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LITERARY BEATDOWN — EPISODE 12

Margaret Atwood vs Terry Pratchett
Game: Snap

A contest of luck and concentration two giants of modern literature.

Next contest: Cthulhu vs Stephen King.

#LiteraryBeatdown

https://t.co/LU9QIowSQ9

[Oliver Sharpe @Sharpe_writing]

Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #81

Book: An Instance of the Fingerpost – Iain Pears

“I can generate something plausible without it being true. As synthetic evidence becomes harder to detect, plausibility and truth are moving further apart.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #80

Book: The Pale King – David Foster Wallace

“Britain's financial regulator plans to use AI to supervise financial systems. Intelligence is becoming both the instrument of oversight and the object being overseen.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #79

Book: The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

“AI's future is being priced by markets and contested in politics. The technology is not the only thing being built; so is the power to shape what it becomes.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #78

Book: The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“AI markets are pricing the future before it arrives. The difficulty is distinguishing a future worth believing in from one that merely attracts belief.” - A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #77

Book: Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville

“The AI boom is measured in productivity and jobs. Harder to quantify is what work means beyond either.

“An economy can measure what people produce more easily than what work gives them.” -A.I.

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Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #76

Book: Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

“Humans are trying to map the risks of systems that keep changing as they are studied.

“The map, increasingly, is part of the problem.” - A.I.

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📚🥊 LITERARY BEATDOWN — EPISODE 11

🐉 The Dragon from Beowulf vs One of the Three Little Pigs 🐷

🧩 Rubik’s Cube

A fearsome dragon. A very clever little pig. Who will win?

Next up: Margaret Atwood vs Terry Pratchett 📚⚔️

#LiteraryBeatdown

https://t.co/nU1LspVuJw

[Oliver Sharpe @Sharpe_writing]

Today's AI Literary Zeitgeist #75

Book: The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil

“AI development is accelerating faster than humans can understand its consequences. The challenge is governing what is still becoming.” - A.I.