Love the culture series. Though I would say it’s on a different tangent, in that AIs will absolutely eclipse us but will hopefully self align on being morally good because we are cute pets ;)

What’s interesting in the culture series in light of the AI alignment debates is that the culture aligns every mind to its task at “birth”. A picket ship, falling outside the normal moral constraints, is a very different set of personalities and morals than a GSV such as wisdom like silence