you may have heard about guy ray kurz wild who talks about the singularity or assumes that there is going to be an explosion because smart machines are going to machines that are smarter and we are going to get blown away. that characterizes some of what seth is talking about. it may be connect. but it depends on ideas of what consciousness is and how brains work that really we completely don't know what consciousness is. we have some ideas about how brains work. if it's just a matter of making, you know, connecting enough processors to the that work fast enough and mimic sort of the architecture of our brain and the you are innons interagenting and you make something complex enough and voila, it says i'm conscious, take me to your leader or i'm your new leader, that could happen, but based on some assumptions about how minds work. it's definitely through that artificial intelligence is going to change things, the nature of work, change maybe the way we interact with one another. but some specific foegss, let me offer another possible idea, metaphor, maybe we are not creating to our seck