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Erik Gray

Erik Gray is professor of English at Columbia University, where he teaches courses on poetry and love, among other subjects. His most recent book is The Art of Love Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2018). icon

Machines Like Me, But They Love You

By Erik Gray

In almost any book about artificial life, there comes a moment when the humans, like Victor Frankenstein, are obliged to confront the full reality of what they’ve ...

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