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Welcome, Bob. I share your interest in AI as an instrument or amplifier rather than a metal monster waiting to rebel. The abuse that worries me most starts with an ordinary objective: maximise engagement or cut costs. Then the system gains influence faster than anyone admits, and people begin adapting their choices to it.

That quieter transfer of authority feels more plausible to me than a machine suddenly deciding to hate us. Which application of AI do you think fiction currently gets most wrong?

Fiction still gets the everyday applications most wrong: case files, school platforms, care scheduling, hiring filters. Those systems do not need to hate anyone. They just make the human alternative slower, more expensive, or suspicious.

The drama is not a sudden uprising. It is the moment a clerk, a nurse, or a parent is no longer allowed to work without the tool, and the institution stops keeping a path that does not require it.

I also think we credit the model with too much. It does not know the person in the room. It knows a record. People do the fearing, the funding, and the covering-up. The machine only scales what they already wanted cheaper.

The application I wish more books sat with is not the genius breakthrough, but the maintenance contract. Who pays when the helpful system is down, and who is still responsible for the body in front of them?