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Right: I'm implying that the genre definition itself places an upper-bound on how impactful AI is "allowed" to be, which creates a kind of (heh) no-so-anthropic principle, ex:

A: "Why isn't there more AI in cyberpunk media?"

B: "There's a decent amount already, as characters or tools."

A: "But why didn't those authors address its potential to be even bigger?"

B: "Some did, but that makes stories we don't categorize as cyberpunk."