{"id":18257,"date":"2025-03-26T16:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/the-dream-hotel-by-laila-lalami-review-what-if-ai-could-read-our-minds\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:37:59","slug":"the-dream-hotel-by-laila-lalami-review-what-if-ai-could-read-our-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/the-dream-hotel-by-laila-lalami-review-what-if-ai-could-read-our-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami review \u2013 what if AI could read our minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longlisted for the Women\u2019s prize, this powerful dystopian novel imagines people jailed for their potential to commit crimes<\/p>\n

Arriving home at Los Angeles international airport, Sara Hussein is asked by immigration and customs officers to step aside, then taken to an interview room. The fundamentals of this scene are familiar \u2013 you\u2019ve probably watched something like it in a film, or dreamed about it happening to you; perhaps it already has. But Sara lives in a new world, several decades in the future, and she is being arrested because Scout, the state\u2019s AI security system, has flagged something irregular inside her mind.<\/p>\n

Sara seems unexceptional: she\u2019s a museum archivist, married and mother to young twins. She once had an argument with her husband Elias after he impulsively part-exchanged the family Toyota for a Volvo. Sara sees herself as a person who \u201ccouldn\u2019t possibly be considered a member of the lawbreaking classes\u201d, until the moment at the airport when an officer informs her that her \u201crisk score\u201d is too high, and sends her to Madison, a California women\u2019s retention centre housed in a former elementary school. At Madison, a record of good behaviour will lower her score; however, this record lies in the hands of her guards. She is not sufficiently subordinate, and can\u2019t get her number down.<\/p>\n

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\nLonglisted for the Women\u2019s prize, this powerful dystopian novel imagines people jailed for their potential to commit crimes
\nArriving home at Los Angeles international airport, Sara Hussein is asked by immigration and customs officers to step aside, then taken to an interview room. The fundamentals of this scene are familiar \u2013 you\u2019ve probably watched something like it in a film, or dreamed about it happening to you; perhaps it already has. But Sara lives in a new world, several decades in the future, and she is being arrested because Scout, the state\u2019s AI security system, has flagged something irregular inside her mind.
\nSara seems unexceptional: she\u2019s a museum archivist, married and mother to young twins. She once had an argument with her husband Elias after he impulsively part-exchanged the family Toyota for a Volvo. Sara sees herself as a person who \u201ccouldn\u2019t possibly be considered a member of the lawbreaking classes\u201d, until the moment at the airport when an officer informs her that her \u201crisk score\u201d is too high, and sends her to Madison, a California women\u2019s retention centre housed in a former elementary school. At Madison, a record of good behaviour will lower her score; however, this record lies in the hands of her guards. She is not sufficiently subordinate, and can\u2019t get her number down. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longlisted for the Women\u2019s prize, this powerful dystopian novel imagines people jailed for their potential to commit crimes Arriving home at Los Angeles international airport, Sara Hussein is asked by immigration and customs officers to step aside, then taken to an interview room. The fundamentals of this scene are familiar \u2013 you\u2019ve probably watched something …<\/p>\n

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