Alma Katsu, drawing on her experience as a technology futurist for the CIA, wrote her novel Incarnate about the dangers of technology and its unintended consequences. She said generative AI’s boom was exponential, faster than any technology she had followed, and that the pace became too much, so she quit the foresight business to grow her writing career. Katsu said unintended consequences typically arise when a creator foresees a specific application, but widespread adoption leads thousands of people to devise new uses, citing the smartphone as the textbook example: Apple envisioned an app store for outside developers’ extensions, but no one foresaw the tsunami of apps that changed how we manage information, even how we think. The idea for Incarnate came from an urge to comment on the unintended consequences of social media and deep fakes. She described “deepfake” as the use of a combination of computer programs to create an image or video of something that never happened, initially videos of politicians or celebrities saying or doing something they never did. In intelligence, the threat was seen primarily from bad actors using them to convince the masses that their leader said or did something destabilizing. Fake news may have been common, but producing a convincing video spouting disinformation was still difficult and required special skills; now, using genAI, anyone can create what is essentially a “deepfake” with a free online tool, to prank friends, exact revenge on ex-lovers, or alleviate boredom. As she wrapped up