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You know it would fucking jam.

Whilst Player Piano is the most obvious book relevant to the AI changes happening today, there's still some great lines in Sirens of Titan that reflect Vonnegut's potential opinion on what lies ahead:

"...rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes.

But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn’t high enough. So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too. And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be. The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn’t really be said to have any purpose at all.

The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else. And they discovered that they weren’t even very good at slaying.

So they turned that job over to the machines, too. And the machines finished up the job in less time than it takes to say, “Tralfamadore.”