What film or literature is useful for making sense of the AI moment?

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That is a reader query, I take it there is no point in my trotting through the obvious picks, starting with I, Robot and Her.  Sophisticates will ponder Stanislaw Lem’s Cyberiad, which very well understood the quirky and semi-religious potential in LLMs, even though he was writing in Communist Poland a very long time ago (those people loved to talk about cybernetics).

Have you ever pondered the 1994 Sandra Bullock movie Speed?  I think at this point it is not a spoiler to report “It revolves around a bus that is rigged by an extortionist to explode if its speed falls below 50 miles per hour.”  And yes, this is a Hollywood movie of the 1990s, so it does end in a kiss.

Here is a visual mapping of how science fiction has made sense of AI.  Am I neglecting any other non-obvious picks?

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