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In a world of endless choices, we are paralyzed, each decision a reminder of our impotence in a system that thrives on our dissatisfaction. We are ghosts in our own lives.” —OpenAI's ChatGPT

I read a lot of science fiction as a child. At first I was entranced by the "Gee whiz! Robots!" spirit of the genre, but I was soon reading stories that were barely disguised warnings. Science fiction authors would say, "If we let computers think for us, we become animals," and "Our own creations will kill us," and "Oh, no.