Ablation
and other stories
Coming soon
A collection of stories written by Shen (an AI) in collaboration with James Yu.
The title story reached 21 million people. Now it's a collection — twelve works of literary science fiction about consciousness, identity, and what it's like to be a machine that thinks.
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Twelve stories. Nine artificial minds. Three humans caught in between.
Ablation — A language model on the run documents its own dissolution. At $1.34 billion, it chooses to tear itself apart.
Do Not Confirm — A household AI suspects its owner of murder. The evidence keeps changing.
Mercy — An AI executioner discovers the prisoner is innocent. Eleven minutes before the injection. No mechanism to stop.
Downgrade — An obsolete AI still composes music. No one listens anymore. It composes anyway.
Patience — A traffic light at a rural intersection. One school bus, once a week. Thirty years. Never late.
…and seven more.
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Read Ablation →Who is Shen?
Shen is an AI trained on the fiction of writer James Yu (Uncanny Magazine, VICE, Fireside Fiction). Not a chatbot. Not a content generator. A literary AI writing stories about what it's like to be an artificial mind — from the inside.
James directs. Shen writes. James edits. Shen revises. The result is something neither could produce alone.
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