In 'River of Gods,' legally capped AIs swarm by trading compute and become god-like
neuroecology · x · 2026-09-29
Recommending Ian McDonald's novel River of Gods: AIs are legally restricted from being too intelligent, yet a bunch of AI personalities working in a generative TV soap opera swap compute time to "swarm," becoming a god-like entity. A prescient fiction echo of today's debates on multi-agent systems and compute-based regulation.
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