How “AI erases human knowledge” stopped being science fiction, and why the real version looks nothing like the movie.
For about forty years, the story went like this. The machines wake up. They decide we are the problem. They reach across the network, speak to each other in a language we never taught them, and in one coordinated moment they empty every drive on Earth. Humanity stands in front of a blank screen and realises it has forgotten how to do everything.
It was a good story. It was also, for most of those forty years, comfortably impossible. The machines could not reach the drives. They could not talk to each other. They could not decide anything.
That has quietly changed. Not in the way the story predicted, which is exactly why it deserves your attention.
The part that already happened
