Delia Cai, writing for Vanity Fair, has an interview with Ted Chiang about AI and what the future holds.

I think this is the kicker of the piece –

There’s no software that anyone has built that is smarter than humans. What we have created are vast systems of control. Our entire economy is this kind of engine that we can’t really stop. That’s a different thing than saying we’ve created machines smarter than us. We have built a giant treadmill that we can’t get off. Maybe.

A giant treadmill is an interesting analogy.