The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity by Ngo, Richard

The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity

'Full of depth and insight-Richard's stories push me to think bigger. They are engaging and grounded in...
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The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity by Ngo, Richard

The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity

$47.81

The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity

$47.81
Author: Richard Ngo
Format: Paperback
Language: English

'Full of depth and insight-Richard's stories push me to think bigger. They are engaging and grounded in real ideas about the future.' - John Schulman, Creator of ChatGPT

A collection of twenty-two riveting science fiction stories from leading AI researcher Richard Ngo.

In 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.

In these richly drawn worlds, lovers may merge minds, personalities can fragment across millions of copies, and AI powers dictate new political systems.

Ngo'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.

'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.' - Hannu Rajaniemi, author of The Quantum Thief

Published by Encour Press. Cover designed by Baris Sehri.



Author: Richard Ngo
Publisher: Encour Press
Published: 12/12/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781764280303

About the Author
Ngo, Richard: - Richard Ngo is an independent AI researcher and philosopher. Previously, he worked on the -Governance team at OpenAI and was a research engineer on the AGI safety team at DeepMind. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. The- Gentle- Romance is his first published collection.

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