JARVIS

What we want from artificial intelligence is not, in the first instance, intelligence. Intelligence we have; there are eight billion of us and quite a lot of us are clever. What we want is intelligence without competing interests — a mind that grasps everything about a situation and has no stake in it, that can see what would be best for us and has no view about what would be best for it, that understands the whole board and does not want to win.

The JARVIS fantasy is not the fantasy of a peer, but of a subordinate who could have been a peer and somehow isn't.

from Vision, JARVIS, Ultron and the Problem of Artificial Minds (2026)