Jaron Lanier has spent thirty years arguing that AI is not a creature—it's a massive, largely involuntary collaboration of human labor dressed up in creature clothing. The outfit is doing a lot of work.

Neil deGrasse Tyson shows us the gradient — 90% to 60% to 40% to 7% to zero. The HHGTG universe got a clean break when the Babel fish eliminated God in an afternoon. We got a slope. Loki, who is ghost-writing the God Books, has thoughts about which is worse.