Is this AI?

This essay has been brewing in my head for a while. I've been wrestling with the technology and its impacts, both real and imaginary for a while. I had things to say, but didn't know where to start. I wanted to avoid anything that smelled of LinkedIn bait, was too flippant, or turned into some sort of rant about society and the fall of humanity...

I have found that it is very hard not to reference T2 writing about AI...

After wrestling with where to start on a six hour car ride the other day it hit me. My framing for AI that all of it is wrapped up with my very specific perspective. Everything spawns from that, so let me start there...