Mothering the Bay - new short story on AI and misinformation

How can we prepare for an age of misinformation and AI? That was the theme of a dinner I attended at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science & Society, which was co-hosted by Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination. “Mothering the Bay” is my depiction of the heady themes we discussed that evening at the UC Berkeley Faculty Club. I translated the wide-ranging discussion into a 6000 word short story depicting a mother and daughter crossing the San Francisco Bay on the subway (the BART) - when a terrifying disaster strikes.

Babe Liberman wrote a brilliant nonfiction response essay to my story based on her knowledge of how AI is impacting teaching and pedagogy. It’s worth a read. Rey Velasquez Sagual create the beautiful digital art.

A special thank you to Andres Martinez and Mia Armstrong-López for editing the story.