Martha Wells gave a speech about machine intelligence and her character Murderbot, and it's fascinating even if you have never read the books. Some choice quotes:
"[Asimov's three laws of robotics] seem to be built on the assumption that the robots are going to want to hurt and kill us as soon as they roll off the assembly line. Why are we so sure of this? Maybe because a bunch of us asked for it. :cough: Tech bro oligarchs :cough: The third law also stipulates that robots are expected to die for us, despite their inherent desire to kill us."
"(Maybe ChatGPT is sentient, and that's why it keeps producing books that tell humans to eat poisonous mushrooms, and cookbooks for diabetics that are full of sugar-heavy recipes.)"
"People also mistakenly think Murderbot was not a sentient being until it hacked its governor module. [...] I think that's another aspect of humans ignoring things, though this time they're ignoring things that are too horrible to think about. It's self-protection, rather than a form of self righteousness.
In that way, we're kind of like that cow in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I wonder if Douglas Adams was also thinking about that."
(I love these books so much, and learning that they came from the sense of helpless rage and stress from a lifetime of unfairness and then 2016....yeah that tracks so hard.)
