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I found my following food-for-thought on January 29, 2024:

Several years ago, some colleagues and I conducted a taxonomy study to understand how AI is depicted in contemporary science fiction. We were hoping to learn whether the speculative side of our cultural imaginary on AI has better answers for what kinds of stories we should be telling, as policymakers try to understand and regulate these rapidly evolving tools. The answer? Nobody knows what AI is—even in fiction, where
the author can make all the decisions about how the world works. The AI systems we studied in fiction were ambiguous in terms of their agency, their boundaries or extent of operations, the question of who owned or controlled them, etc. Little wonder that we collectively have such a poor grasp of what AI means in the real world, much less how to manage it.

Ed Finn in Issues in Science and Technology (accessed online at https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/99-103-Finn-Step-Into-the-Free-and-Infinite-Laboratory-of-the-Mind-Winter-2025.pdf)