Storytelling in the Age of Machines: Inside Ken Liu’s New Book Series

A Conversation with Ken Liu AB ’98, JD ’04: On Dreams, AI, and All That We See or Seem

What does it mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence? How do we hold on to daydreams when machines can generate endless images, stories, and realities? And what happens when the line between dream and waking life begins to blur?

Join award-winning author Ken Liu—Harvard graduate, former software engineer, attorney, and now full-time writer—for a conversation about his newest novel, All That We See or Seem. This visionary sci-fi thriller introduces Julia Z, a surly and enigmatic hacker navigating a world transformed by AI. With this new series, Liu asks pressing questions: How do we maintain our humanity when human participation itself becomes rare? How do we find meaning and connection in a world of deepfakes and machine-made art?

Liu, acclaimed for his genre-defying storytelling and literary imagination,…