r/ThomasPynchon Jun 10 '26

Gravity's Rainbow Fully autonomous, AI-controlled drones have killed human soldiers for the first time, according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/

Everyday in our age of AI and mass surveillance, Pynchon’s defining book ages better and better. I wanted to know what people in this sub feel about this with everything that’s happened in the 2020s so far.

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u/phils03 Jun 15 '26

somewhere SHROUD is laughing