Sep 16, 2024: Helen Phillips, author, "HUM"

Brooklyn-based author Helen Phillips discusses her novel HUM, just released. A city much like New York, in the near future, is bristling with surveillance cameras, addictive devices, ambient AI, and accelerating climate change. The novel tells how a mother, father, and their two kids navigate this landscape, encountering situations that sound all too familiar in our real-life dystopia.

Show Notes

• HUM by Helen Phillips, published by Simon & Schuster

• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2020)

• The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller (2020)

• Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle (2016)

• Dressing for the Surveillance Age by John Seabrook (New Yorker, March 9, 2020)

• Tin House - Poison issue (fall 2018)



• OpenAI’s mission to develop AI that ‘benefits all of humanity’ is at risk as investors flood the company with cash (Business Insider, September 15, 2024)