{"id":148,"date":"2026-01-16T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=148"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:12:46","slug":"second-variety","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/second-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecond Variety\u201d\u00a0<br>From:\u00a0<em><strong>Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br>Philip K. Dick; introduction by Jonathan Lethem\u00a0<br>New York: Pantheon\u202fBooks, 2002\u00a0<br>Central Library\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Libraries\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecond Variety\u201d is a post-apocalyptic short story\u00a0about self-replicating machines\u00a0that\u00a0become self-governing and exceed their programmed limits.\u00a0The story\u00a0is one of the earliest examples of AI-enhanced \u201ckiller bots\u201d\u00a0that\u00a0create their own\u00a0humanlike models capable of infiltrating both sides in the war.\u00a0It\u00a0is a cautionary tale\u00a0about autonomous drones, AI\u00a0warfare, and\u00a0unchecked\u00a0machine evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":71,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[5],"class_list":["post-148","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-robots-ai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}