This reminds me of the half-joke about how computer geeks don't really trust technology as far as they can throw it because they know better.
John ScalziEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude