I dunno what it was called but a while back I read a story where a dude was saved from a tollbooth/robot-murder checkpoint on the road because the AI manning it was the bank teller AI that he had always said "Thank You" to.
I also read a few other stories that really stood out. Second Variety by P.K. Dick, The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. It isn't quite a short story, but The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson was also great and could be read as a collection of stories connected to each other.
Robot Uprisings, a new anthology edited by Daniel Wilson (of Robopocalypse fame) has a ton of such stories. Fantastic anthology, one of the best I've read in a few years, every story worth a read.
I dunno what it was called but a while back I read a story where a dude was saved from a tollbooth/robot-murder checkpoint on the road because the AI manning it was the bank teller AI that he had always said "Thank You" to.
EDIT: Found it and a buncha others! I'm not gonna bother to find a download link but the amazon page is here: https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Uprisings-Daniel-H-Wilson/dp/0345803639 (Also fair warning the first story is kinda lame)
One of the stories in Robot Uprisings has that very premise.
Some collections I read recently:
Wasteland
Brave New Worlds
Robot Uprisings
I also read a few other stories that really stood out. Second Variety by P.K. Dick, The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. It isn't quite a short story, but The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson was also great and could be read as a collection of stories connected to each other.
Robot Uprisings, a new anthology edited by Daniel Wilson (of Robopocalypse fame) has a ton of such stories. Fantastic anthology, one of the best I've read in a few years, every story worth a read.