Artificial intelligence stirs our highest ambitions and deepest fears like few other technologies. It's as if every gleaming and Promethean promise of machines able to perform tasks at speeds and with skills of which we can only dream carries with it a countervailing nightmare of human displacement and obsolescence. But despite recent A.I. breakthroughs in previously human-dominated realms of language and visual art -- the prose compositions of the GPT-3 language model and visual creations of the DALL-E 2 system have drawn intense interest -- our gravest concerns should probably be tempered. At least that's according to the computer scientist Yejin Choi, a 2022 recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "genius" grant who has been doing groundbreaking research on developing common sense and ethical reasoning in A.I. "There is a bit of hype around A.I. potential, as well as A.I. fear," admits Choi, who is 45. Which isn't to say the story of humans and A.I. will be without its surprises.