'That space between "Are you playing the technology, or is the technology playing you?" is a very tricky one. I think that one of my more dystopic versions of our A.I. future, my kids' future in A.I., is a world in which they've given up a lot of their own agency because it seems a little bit ridiculous to take it.'
'I have an architect friend called Rem Koolhaas. He's a Dutch architect, and he uses this phrase, "the premature sheen." In his architectural practice, when they first got computers and computers were first good enough to do proper renderings of things, he said everything looked amazing at first.
You could construct a building in half an hour on the computer, and you'd have this amazing-looking thing, but, he said, "It didn't help us make good buildings. It helped us make things that looked like they might be good buildings." '