Pygmalion Paradox

The tendency of technology, as it becomes more advanced or complex, to reflect increasingly primitive or lifelike tendencies, or the foibles and limitations of its creators. By approaching the threshold of sentience, or life imitation, technology becomes more beholden to its embedded design ideology, and more autonomous of personal control. Machines evolve a "secret life" that increasingly isolates users from their more essential functioning. The result is a technological world that is surreal and neo-animistic, with strong parallels to the worlds conjured in ancient or traditional myth structures.

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• Peter Gray - Gray Matter