{"id":127143,"date":"2025-11-10T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/127143\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:07:12","slug":"open-questions-silkpunk-creator-ken-liu-takes-on-ai-modernity-and-what-it-means-to-be-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/127143\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Questions | Silkpunk creator Ken Liu takes on AI, modernity and what it means to be American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ken Liu is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose prize-winning work includes the Silkpunk epic The Dandelion Dynasty and the short story collection The Paper Menagerie. He has won Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy awards and is also known for his English translation of the Chinese sci-fi trilogy by Liu Cixin that opens with The Three-Body Problem. Liu was born in Lanzhou in China\u2019s northwest and moved to the US with his parents when he was 11. He has a bachelor\u2019s degree in English literature as well as a law degree from Harvard University and worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer and litigation consultant before becoming a full-time writer.<\/p>\n<p>This interview first appeared in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/article\/3331763\/author-ken-liu-using-ai-and-being-paid-do-thing-you-love?display=plus&amp;module=open_questions&amp;pgtype=archive?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SCMP Plus<\/a>. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/series\/3256715\/open-questions?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">How has the development of artificial intelligence affected your own writing process and the creative industries in general?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Honestly, it\u2019s too early to tell. The analogy I like to use is to think about past instances where disruptive technology became a part of the artistic process.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One example is the invention of the camera and all of the amazing things that we now do with it as a storytelling medium. Most people would not have been able to look at the earliest instances of photographs or motion pictures and imagine what these mediums would become today.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That\u2019s where AI is today. It will take years, perhaps even decades, for people to figure out how to work with AI as a medium and what new forms of art can be created.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ken Liu, pictured at the Hong Kong Literary Festival in 2017. Photo: Jarrod Watt\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4b6ab1c3-9cae-4290-b66c-1889e024a84a_90ab99f0.jpg\" title=\"Ken Liu, pictured at the Hong Kong Literary Festival in 2017. Photo: Jarrod Watt\"\/>Ken Liu, pictured at the Hong Kong Literary Festival in 2017. Photo: Jarrod Watt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Liu is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose prize-winning work includes the Silkpunk epic The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,69927,8239,363,364,607,4444,17389,88268,34473,6446,13269,64702,88259,88264,88267,36345,88263,111,139,69,13810,88261,88258,88266,145,88262,88260,88265,3040,4139],"class_list":{"0":"post-127143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-generated","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese","15":"tag-covid-19-pandemic","16":"tag-east-asian","17":"tag-english-literature","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-frankenstein","20":"tag-harvard-university","21":"tag-isaac-asimov","22":"tag-ken-liu","23":"tag-lanzhou-city","24":"tag-mary-shelley","25":"tag-melvin-ms-goo-writing-fellowship","26":"tag-new-zealand","27":"tag-newzealand","28":"tag-nz","29":"tag-robotics","30":"tag-sara-walker","31":"tag-scmp-plus","32":"tag-silkpunk","33":"tag-technology","34":"tag-the-dandelion-dynasty","35":"tag-the-paper-menagerie","36":"tag-the-three-body-problem","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}