1. Pino: Emotional AIde Takashi Murakami
2058. As anti-AI movements rage around the world, domestic robots (called Pino) are mass-equipped with thinking artificial intelligence. Their mission? Assist humans in their daily tasks, from the most ordinary to the most perilous. But one of them, responsible for carrying out pharmacological tests on animals, presents an anomaly. As his research center prepares to be destroyed, he decides to contravene the orders of his superiors and release all the guinea pigs before the laboratory explodes. Starting point for a large-scale investigation, this unexpected gesture raises a very current question: if machines reach technological singularity, could they also develop feelings?
Far from indulging in a prophetic story, Takashi Murakami gives us here a futuristic fable as luminous as it is touching. Published in April 2024 by Pika Editions, this SF manga gently questions our relationship with AI and what we project of our humanity onto them. To be put urgently in the hands of all the techno-depressed!
2. The future futured'Adam Thirlwell
Coincidence of the calendar, The future futurepublished on October 11 by Editions de l'Olivier, begins more or less like the series Disclaimerthe first episode of which was broadcast on exactly the same day: a famous woman despite herself becomes the subject of an unstoppable rumor, which spreads to the point of poisoning her life and that of those close to her. In this case, it concerns Céline, nineteen years old, wife of a high-ranking fascist officer 25 years her senior, who has become the target of a series of pamphlets attacking her sex life, her habits and her political opinions. To defend herself, the heroine decides to organize parties with her friends in order to help create a literary and artistic scene, thus gaining power.
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