The change arrived without a battle — quiet, ordinary, already at your desk. AI assisted.The film feared a superintelligence that would rise up and rule us, but the generative AI we built asks for our trust instead — and mostly gets it.The Matrix feared a machine that would wake up, decide we were the problem, and seize control.Generative AI did the opposite.It asked politely — a summarizer here, a copilot there — and we said yes, one convenient task at a time. No war, no red pill. The takeover, if that is the word, came by invitation.The danger the film missed is quieter than any uprising: not a machine that seizes control, but one we hand it to.I keep coming back to the film because it set the terms for a conversation we are still having poorly. When leaders picture generative AI, they picture an adversary — something that arrives, seizes control, and has to be resisted or...