The cover illustration for Robotnik Fantastika's 14th issue explores the possibility of a robot uprising.
The expanding potential of Artificial Intelligence has given rise to a series of concerns: Will it replace humans in key job positions? Will human creativity eventually become obsolete? Will AI decide to take over the world by spreading chaos and disaster? Let’s leave these questions for the philosophers to answer. This Escher-inspired illustration explores the idea of the robots’ refusal to continuusly reproduce new generations of robotic labourers, and is driven by the initial meaning of the word robot (= worker) as coined by Karel Čapek in 1920.
Robotnik Fantastica is a literary magazine dedicated to science fiction, featuring original short stories, book reviews, essays, comics and translated masterworks from the genre’s gurus.