Book Launch: The Gentle Romance by Richard Ngo
Join us for the launch of The Gentle Romance, AI researcher Richard Ngo's debut collection of science fiction short stories.
Richard Ngo is an independent AI researcher and was previously in the Governance team at OpenAI and AGI safety team at DeepMind.
Included in your ticket
A limited edition, signed first edition of The Gentle Romance
Fireside chat and Q&A with Richard and Hannu Rajaniemi
Additional copies available for purchase and signing
Drinks and snacks
A copy of The Gentle Romance is included with every ticket, and additional will be available for purchase.
Spaces are limited, so sign up early! We will confirm your registration as soon as possible.
About The Gentle Romance
This book is a special collection of stories about the impact of frontier technologies, particularly AI, on society and humanity. Some are revised from Richard's popular Substack Narrative Ark, while others are previously unpublished. This edition is accompanied by original illustrations by Baris Sehri.
In this collection of stories, minds fragment across millions of copies, lovers may merge minds, and artificial intelligences overturn human governance systems. In these worlds reshaped by technology, characters are occupied by the question not only of what to do, but also who to be.
More information about the book: https://tully.encour.co/books/the-gentle-romance
Early praise for The Gentle Romance
'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
'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