Conservation Laws

 As we see the Giant Killer Asteroid of AI plummet towards the Home of the Human Race, it becomes clear that the laws of thermodynamics were incomplete.

As well as the conservation of energy, momentum, mass and spin (oh, ok, angular momentum), we must now add the conservation of Intelligence.

This is made obvious by the ease with which obviously stupid AIs are able to fool humans in the imitation game. The AI did not have to be as smart as the person, it only had to meet them half way.

This works both at the indivual level, and at the group level, and at the academic level (people can use an AI to write a terrible paper that human reviewers will accept) and the investor level (venture capitalists fall over each other to fund companies whose products will lead to the ends of the earth).

This is the existential threat to humanity. Not that the AI will wish to eliminate us as competition - it won't need to, because once it gets anywhere near that level, we will all dimmer than a Toc H Lamp

It is already too late to put an end to this.

the internet family's least famous kin

People talk about the "Father of the Internet" or the "Grandfather of the Internet", but no-one mentions the strange uncle of the Internet, or the fairy godmother of the Internet. Nor do they speak (except perhaps on the dark web) of the evil twin of the Internet, or the secret love child of the Internet.

Where are the kissing cousins of the Internet, or the mother-in-law of the Internet? What happened to the wastrel son of the Internet? Indeed, the whole bastard offspring of the Internet have been totally erased from public discourse.

The maiden aunts of the Internet should be given credit, as well as the confirmed bachelor great uncle.

And of course, the Giddy Aunt of the Internet.