I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Robots, Reason, and the Architecture of Moral Machines
From the essay
We are no longer anticipating intelligent machines. We are negotiating with them. The question is not whether machines can think. The question is how their thinking reorganizes ours. When read in 1951, I, Robot feels anticipatory. When read in 2026, it feels architectural. The metallic bodies governed by crystalline Laws have not materialized. Instead, intelligence has diffused into data centers, networks, and invisible infrastructures. The robot has become environment rather than object. Yet the central insight endures: the future of intelligence depends less on its existence than on its boundaries.
Adapted from PDF pages 1, 4, 5.
The podcast covers two reviews. This PDF is the 2026-perspective review. Its printed date is later than the video publication date.