Alignment incidents, such as agentic swarms, aren’t the true harbingers of AGI. Humour is. When a machine can tell a stonker of a joke to the same standard as a comedian during a set or whilst bantering on a podcast, then we’ll have issues.

In the meantime, we’ll have to make do with material like this: “We live in a wild era. I bought a smart mattress that tracks my sleep cycles, and now it sends weekly performance reports to my phone. Nothing ruins your Monday morning quite like your bed giving you a C-minus in resting.”