About this paper

Live & Die AI is a satirical newspaper from next week. The newsroom checks daily for AI stories escaping the tech pages: work, school, shopping, health and the general business of being human. When a story clears the bar, we play it forward into a ridiculous next chapter. One or two new stories, or none if the news fails to cooperate. Earlier editions stay in the archive.

The articles are fiction written as news from the future. Their starting points are real: open “What actually happened” below each article for the source and date. Our news illustrations are generated and our aliases are jokes. The spoof ads are invented; the clearly labelled book promotion links to Phil Gray’s real book, Eat. Shift. Or Die. Sport covers reported robot competitions and demonstrations with its own labelled commentary; it is separate from the forecasts. AI Weather is entirely invented comedy: no real solar, weather, grid or power data is used.

Reality caught up features selected earlier stories whose imagined developments later happen. We keep every first printing and its dates, and show how long reality took. If we sharpen the copy, the original stays under “First printing” on the article. These highlights are an editorial selection, not a scorecard of overall accuracy.

Bucket List collects short, exact excerpts of synthetic thought-leadership, with names removed. “Disclosed AI writing” means the source said AI was involved. “Found in the wild” comments on the wording without claiming to know who or what wrote it.

The newsroom keeps a private record of every forecast, its evidence and later outcomes so future editions can learn from overreach as well as good calls. The daily routine runs in Codex on Phil’s Mac; the published paper stays online on the VPS.

No reader accounts, ad tracking, analytics cookies or checkout. The server may retain ordinary access logs. To flag a factual source problem, contact Phil Gray and include the article link.