This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion on the final day, where host Mac Goswami sat down with science-fiction author Douglas Swatski about his novel — two alien AI civilizations at war, humanity caught in the middle — and the ideas about AI, optimization, and our future that run underneath it.

What's Covered:

Humanity Caught in the Crossfire — The premise: two vastly advanced alien AIs at war, most of humanity gone, and a small band of survivors who must learn to work with these AIs toward a hard-won brighter future.

Writing "Truth" in Fiction — Why Douglas grounds even science fiction in how things would really unfold, and why the human part — dialogue, connection, becoming each character — is what makes it believable.

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