This discussion of AI reminds me of a scene from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength: "Supposing the dream to be veridical," said MacPhee. "You can guess what i

This discussion of AI reminds me of a scene from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength: "Supposing the dream to be veridical," said MacPhee. "You can guess what it would be. Once they'd got it kept alive, the first thing that would occur to boys like them would be to increase its brain. They'd try all sorts of stimulants. And then, maybe, they'd ease open the skull-cap and just--well, just let it boil over, as you might say. That's the idea, I don't doubt. A cerebral hypertrophy artificially induced to support a superhuman power of ideation." "Is it at all probable," said the Director, "that a hypertrophy like that would increase thinking power?" "That seems to me the weak point," said Miss Ironwood. "I should have thought it was just as likely to produce lunacy--or nothing at all. But it might have the opposite effect." "Then what we are up against," said Dimble, "is a criminal's brain swollen to superhuman proportions and experiencing a mode of consciousness which we can't imagine, but which is presumably a consciousness of agony and hatred." ... "It tells us something in the long run even more important," said the Director. "It means that if this technique is really successful, the Belbury people have for all practical purposes discovered a way of making themselves immortal." There was a moment's silence, and then he continued: "It is the beginning of what is really a new species--the Chosen Heads who never die. They will call it the next step in evolution. And henceforward all the creatures that you and I call human are mere candidates for admission to the new species or else its slaves--perhaps its food." "The emergence of the Bodiless Men!" said Dimble. "Very likely, very likely," said MacPhee, extending his snuff-box to the last speaker. It was refused, and he took a very deliberate pinch before proceeding. "But there's no good at all applying the forces of rhetoric to make ourselves skeery or daffing our own heads off our shoulders because some other fellows have had the shoulders taken from under their heads. I'll back the Director's head, and yours Dr. Dimble, and my own, against this lad's whether the brains is boiling out of it or no. Provided we use them. I should be glad to hear what practical measures on our side are suggested."