What The Matrix got wrong about AI (so far)

The change arrived without a battle — quiet, ordinary, already at your desk. AI assisted. The film feared a superintelligence that would rise up and rule us, but the generative AI we built asks for our trust instead — and mostly gets it. The Matrix feared a machine that would wake up, decide we were the problem, and seize control. Generative AI did the opposite. It asked politely — a summarizer…