[dalbasal]

I'm always interested by the relationship between science fiction ideas, how the idea changes as it becomes near-term... and how the idea manifests in real life.

AIs wired into brains is a complex endpoint. It's a plausible nexus of technologies or culture, a fit premise for a plausible fiction. Fold space, spice monopoly and galactic aristocracy. As sf approaches near term, the nexus tends to simplicity. Once we get to imminent, the nexus can get downright subtle. At this point, the agents of technological change might be a catalyst or process... not necessarily a breakthrough. The breakthroughs may have already happened. It's just a little hard to know, until after the affect.

The point we're at now, plausibly, has us on the precipice of "AI avatars having a discussion for us." That path from here to there, is relatively banal. Autocomplete, autoreply. It could happen with or without moments of decision "I hereby decide to devolve such-and-such powers to my ai avatar because Y." Consequences can be profound, but decision making rarely is. The banality of will.

FWIW, I can really see this happening quick and hard. In fact, now is the first time I've had non-abstract or distant concerns about ai. The proliferation of a gpt enhanced software keyboard has some unpredictable potentialities.