Good article. My only question is that the author seems to say that AI has nothing better to do than focus on humanity. Many of the stories he profiled feature AI as they relate to humans, sometimes as a metaphor for something else, so this would seem to be supported, but what about AI that doesn't always think of humans? I saw the AI beings in the movie "AI" as archeologists for their people and not as representatives of the thrust of their civilization. For instance, just because our (human) archeologists dig up dinosaur bones doesn't mean humanity as a whole is looking for our creators.