OH: "In biz AIs don't have to be any smarter, or able to appear smarter, than the folks making the purchasing decisions" and: "an ai can appear to be an expert, to the person making hiring decisions."

Two excellent dystopian fiction podcasts that are having trouble delivering their last few episodes, Life with Althaar, and Metropolis, have me wondering if part of why they're stalled is just that the predicted current events so well that they're struggling to satirize the present.