
Sci-fi’s finest authors have overclocked their imaginations to generate worlds where artificial consciousness communed with the human psyche – for better or worse. Some dream that these god-like machines elevated humanity to new eras of enlightenment and understanding. Others caution that these alien intelligences could hijack the world’s nuclear arsenal and blew us all to bits. Let’s hope that the AIs of the future fall into the former category. These are the 10 best sci-fi books about artificial intelligence.