Great science fiction is grounded in conflict, as is human nature. There is a whole subtext of conflict in this, and other threads about AI: a future of machine oligarchs, of haves and have-nots. Great science fiction, like any great literature, is grounded in a deep understanding and a profound abstraction of humanity. I completely disagree that reasoning by science fiction is stupid, and the proof is in the pudding: science fiction writers have made a few great predictions.