Elon’s Basilisk: why exploitative, egomaniacal rich dudes think AI will destroy humanity, Cory Doctorow:

As I’ve written before, science fiction isn’t very good at predicting the future, but it’s great at predicting the present: tell us what futuristic phenomena you fear and hope for and we’ll know what fears about yourself and your relations with the people around you are lurking, possibly unacknowledged, in your psyche.