'Your Phone Says Bless You When You Sneeze' — AI Arrives Without a Cinematic Moment
dfinke · x · 2026-08-28
A resonant thread from @dfinke: one Tuesday you sneeze, and something in your pocket says 'bless you' — nicer to you than most people you know — and you don't even blink. He reflects that this is probably how the whole takeover goes: nobody warns you, there's no big cinematic robot moment, just small unremarkable kindnesses. 'Kind of nice, in an ominous kind of nice way.'
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