For the first time, the human species is confronted with a technology that can produce output resembling thought. AI is no longer an augmenter of human creativity; it can become a substitute for it.

The true threat of AI is not that it will eliminate human labour but that it will take us to the top of a ladder we will no longer remember how to climb.

When a machine lulls a person into a comfortable space of disruption-free “infinite” companionship, real life will seem jarring.