@futurebird
> Writers care about characters so they want AI to be a character, and they want to wrestle with questions of humanity and discrimination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep gas artificial (super)intelligence that's not a character.
Ironically that's a book many current AI boosters were inspired by (as in "yay, we're finally building the Torment Nexus as described in a book 'Don't Build the Torment Nexus'"), except that of course it too is irrelevant to the thing that is being called "AI" right now.