"The Mind Machine"

Title"The Mind Machine"
Year for Search1919
AuthorsWilliams, Michael
Secondary TitleAll-Story Weekly
Volume / Edition95.2
Pagination377-93
Date PublishedMarch 29, 1919
KeywordsMale author
Annotation

Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73. 

Holding Institutions

DLC, PSt

Author Note

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database identifies the author with the founder of Commonweal; Everett F. Bleiler’s Science-Fiction: The Early Years. A full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930. With author, title, and motif indexes (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990), 820, says probably not that Michael Williams.

Full Text

1919 Williams, Michael. “The Mind Machine.” All-Story Weekly 95.2 (March 29, 1919): 377-93. Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73. DLC, PSt

Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database identifies the author with the founder of Commonweal; Everett F. Bleiler’s Science-Fiction: The Early Years. A full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930. With author, title, and motif indexes (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990), 820, says probably not that Michael Williams.