Worldcon

But where do you see it?

Well, Jonathan, when I was at the Worldcon, the Book of Bots debuted there, and so I had a card, Jonathan, that I stuck into every book that I signed.

It says, here's the 13th story of this book.

It was too late for it to be in the book.

I mean, my God, is it pressured or what? I mean, are we now looking at, you know, AI agents that are hacking into, I mean, that's what that story is about.

And part of what that story is about is the idea that guidelines and guidelines and some kind of way that they're trying to keep, you know, constrain these AIs are really ineffective.

I was on several panels at the Worldcon with a bunch of robotic scientists that are saying, engineers are talking about this and they're saying, you know, really? We hope we can do this.

Red teams, you know, they get an AI to attack the subject AI to figure out if there's some way it can break it.

She's going to be at

Worldcon, by the way.

We can, like, fangirl.

Okay.

Not that this matters because nobody's hearing this until after.

But if you were, you might have already heard, oh, you've like time traveled.

If you were at Worldcon, you might have already heard our next episode that we have not done yet.

Whoa,

We know all that.

But what we're talking about here is the World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon, from 1966 that a lot of you know Gene famously took the pilots to to help promote the show, which was going to premiere to the world just a few days later.

Some fascinating lore around that, and best of all, yes, we've got the documents.

We've got the receipts.

We're looking at how Gene wound up at Worldcon, remembering the mindset of Gene as he's busy beating all the odds to get this crazy show on the air, and at the same time, Gene's promotional mind is always at work.

He's always thinking about audiences and the future, and so much of this is so prescient.

But take a look at those.

Oh boy, I not only love finding a letter, but I love finding a letter that records so much historical data.

We know all that.

But what we're talking about here is the World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon, from 1966 that a lot of you know Gene famously took the pilots to to help promote the show, which was going to premiere to the world just a few days later.

some fascinating lore around that and best of all yes we've got the documents we've got the receipts we're looking at how gene wound up at worldcon remembering the mindset of gene as he's busy beating all the odds to get this crazy show on the air and at the same time gene's promotional mind is always at work he's always thinking about audiences in the future and so much of this is so prescient but Take a look at those.

We'll be right back with Glenn.

Oh boy, I not only love finding a letter, but I love finding a letter that records so much historical data.

Now I know why it was called Tricon.

Maybe the old fan folks around that area know, but now we understand why that particular Worldcon bidding group that year that won was called Tricon.

Anyway, that part of the country, that was the first time, or was it? that the public saw the pilots.

We know all that.

But what we're talking about here is the World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon, from 1966, that a lot of you know Gene famously took the pilots to to help promote the show, which was gonna premiere to the world just a few days later.

Some fascinating lore around that, and best of all, yes, we've got the documents.

We've got the receipts.

We're looking at how Gene wound up at Worldcon, remembering the mindset of Gene as he's busy, uh, beating all the odds to get this crazy show on the air, and at the same time, Gene's [laughs] promotional mind is always at work.

He's always thinking about audiences in the future and so much of this is so prescient.

But take a look at those.

I not only love finding a letter, but I love finding a letter that records so much historical data [laughs].