How should we navigate a world in which anxieties about AI, climate change and capitalism collide? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi speaks with Helen Phillips, author of Hum and the second-ever winner of the Climate Fiction Prize. Rathi asks Phillips how she’s transformed her anxieties into captivating prose, how her relationship to technology has changed through writing and what humanity loses out on if we rely on AI too much.

Past episodes of Zero’s Imagine series:

• Abi Dare on finding the best climate stories 
• Julia Wolfe on How Music can Inspire Climate Action
• George Saunders on Climate Guilt, AI and Critical Thinking
• Kim Stanley Robison on Abundance, Adequacy and Better Climate Futures
• Artist Monira Al Qadiri on the End of Oil

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