The Quiet Expansion of Artificial Intelligence Into Daily Life
Everyone was watching the front door. The cultural script said artificial intelligence would arrive as an announcement, a product launch, a moment you could point at. Instead it came in through the settings menu, switched on by default, wearing the word "smart" as a disguise. Nobody consented to it because nobody was asked. And the systems that ended up mattering most are the ones you never noticed, because those are the ones taking notes.