"Mickey Mouse proves that a creature can still survive even when it has thrown off all resemblance to a human being. He disrupts the entire hierarchy of creatures that is supposed to culminate in mankind." -Walter Benjamin (1931)

Postscript: This is how the Big Tech works, and we've seen it before. People shocked and awed by these AGI projections should remember that fanciful projections have been used time and time again to manipulate stock prices and facilitate the lucrative acquisitions that the tech economy is based on.

“If it should turn out to be true that knowledge…and thought have parted company for good, then we would…become the helpless slaves, not so much of our machines as of our know-how, thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous.” -Arendt