Robin Sloan:

It’s inter­esting and useful to imagine — really visualize — the chat­bots and agents in ten years or twenty … barnacled with gunk … locked in a per­ma­nent cat-and-mouse game with their adversaries … just as a plat­form like Google is today. In 2036, you send your AI agent out into the internet, and it returns battered, bedraggled, inex­plic­ably enthu­si­astic about a bar­gain flight to Bermuda.