Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories: Allegories, Companions, Advisor, Otherworldly, and Outsiders, by Daniel Hope for Lit Hub
“The rise of chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude has revived old debates about just how human a machine can be. When it comes to the capabilities of these current tools, the answer is simple (spoiler: they’re not), but in the world of literature, the answer is very different.
Sapient machines have appeared in stories for over a hundred years, but they’re just one example in our long tradition of using non-human characters to tell stories about ourselves. Long before Asimov wrote his...Forward