Great essay London. AI has indeed gone through "Winters" a few times already (largely the result of over-hype). But it is the ideological and cultural impact that we tend to ignore with all this ebb and flow. And, on these fronts, it is still burgeoning. AI is now part of our ecologically corrupt socioeconomic system. Don't miss the forestation for the trees. Note: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue93/Daneke93.pdf