Sally (short story)

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"Sally" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores themes of robotics and artificial intelligence through the tale of autonomous, positronic cars.

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instanceOf short story
author Isaac Asimov
centralCharacter Sally NERFINISHED
centralCharacterType autonomous positronic car
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Isaac Asimov NERFINISHED
exploresConcept emergent machine personality
exploitation of robots
independence of artificial intelligences
loyalty of intelligent machines
featuresTechnology autonomous positronic cars
positronic brain
firstPublicationYear 1953
firstPublishedIn Fantastic NERFINISHED
genre robot fiction
science fiction
hasFictionalElement telepathic-like communication between cars
hasMotif non-human point of view through machines
rebellion of machines against human abuse
hasTitleCharacter Sally NERFINISHED
includedInCollection The Complete Robot NERFINISHED
The Rest of the Robots NERFINISHED
language English
literaryCategory Golden Age science fiction
mainTheme artificial intelligence
autonomous vehicles
ethics of AI
human–machine interaction
robotics
mediumOfPublication pulp magazine
narrativePerspective third-person narration
partOf Isaac Asimov's robot stories corpus NERFINISHED
protagonist Jake NERFINISHED
publisher Ziff-Davis Publishing Company NERFINISHED
series Robot series NERFINISHED
setting farm for retired autonomous cars
future United States
subject machine rights
self-driving cars
technological dependence
timePeriodOfStory mid-21st century (approximate)
universe Isaac Asimov's Robot universe NERFINISHED
workChronologyNote written before real-world development of modern autonomous cars

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