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Singapore Writers Festival 2025: Sci-fi author Ken Liu finds fears of AI replacing writers boring
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American science-fiction and fantasy author Ken Liu's keynote speech at the Victoria Theatre on Nov 8 is titled The Future Of Art In The Age Of AI.
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SINGAPORE – The literary community may be in a state of frenzy over the threat of artificial intelligence (AI), but American science-fiction and fantasy author Ken Liu, engaged by the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) to deliver a keynote speech on the subject in November, says stone-faced over Zoom: “That’s not terribly interesting to me.”
These are fighting words in today’s clime, but no one can accuse the 49-year-old’s opinion of being unconsidered. Once a software engineer and later a technology rights lawyer, he is among the rare breed of creatives who can claim expertise in both the arts and the computer sciences.
