The origin of Sick Machines is a very clear concern about a very current issue. The stories refer, in different ways, to our obsession with so-called "artificial intelligences" and other digital technologies, and to the many dark sides of this renewed myth: that of machines that "are going" to replace us, and that are already interfering in our lives, our thinking, and even our bodies. Although the myth is old, the global sensation caused by generative artificial intelligence models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or any other) has grown thanks to the threats, not always veiled, that their owners or creators have disseminated through the media. Their technologies are inevitable, they say; whoever doesn't adapt and submit to them will be dragged down, erased from the workforce and probably from the world altogether.
