At the 2025 Hay Festival, Salman Rushdie revealed that he prefers to ignore the existence of artificial intelligence and confessed he has “never experimented” with it. He thinks writers remain secure ...

Salman Rushdie says writers shouldn't fear AI — yet — because it still lacks a key human trait: humour. He says that the day AI will write a funny book, that day writers will have to worry about it.

Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales, the celebrated author of Midnight’s Children joked that authors are safe from the threat of AI until the day a robot cracks a proper joke.

Sir Salman Rushdie says he’s moved on from the knife attack that nearly took his life in 2022, after attacker Hadi Matar was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Salman Rushdie at the Hay Festival said AI won’t threaten writers until it can write something truly funny. He also reflected ...

Salman Rushdie has pinpointed the moment authors should start worrying about AI. Speaking at the 2025 Hay Festival, which has ...

The 77-year-old Indian-born British author was stabbed multiple times during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in New ...

Salman Rushdie has said he is “pleased” that the man who stabbed him multiple times on stage received the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault over the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, ...

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. A jury found ...