東京都同情塔

I read this around the time it was making headlines for winning the Akutagawa Prize. The story is set in Tokyo in 2030. LLMs have become completely mainstream, and everyone uses a chat AI called “AI-built” for writing and research. The protagonist is Sara Machina, a world-renowned architect who designed the recently constructed Tokyo Sympathy Tower (commonly known as the Tokyo Sympathy Tower) near Shinjuku Gyoen. Although the tower functions as a prison, its inner workings are entirely...