Software is Running the World, but I do not want it to Run Me

The first part of this statement is important. Software is running the World. And we need to acknowledge that. This is the world we live in.

What comes after that, once we realize where are,  is much more difficult, and may not be possible. How can we coexist with the smart machines we have built?

The first step is to acknowledge that they are smart, this is called Artificial Intelligence. And once we have done that, we can examine how they are intelligent. This is not impossible, we made them smart, and we can reverse-engineer this smartness.

But we are not doing this. We seem to prefer being stupid, relatively speaking. And enjoy being entertained by them.

Being smart has been transformed by a strange social process into being entertained.