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"I'm a science-fiction writer - my job is to think of a dozen alternatives before breakfast."

The author should have a team of programmers trying to implement some of these alternatives

I'm confident "new method of collecting data, performing surveillance and providing ad services" would not be one of them

Programmers are generally not good sources of novel ideas

They tend to focus on copying ("implementing") the ideas of others

Today's "AI", designed by programmers, IMO (other opinions may differ), is an automated form of copying