General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Eventually, robots will make everything.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.