Except the humans know that the Minds are smarter & they are content to leave all the big decisions (Contact, Special Circumstances, etc) to…

Except the humans know that the Minds are smarter & they are content to leave all the big decisions (Contact, Special Circumstances, etc) to the AIs so they can do whatever they want personally aside from run the world (which they would be bad at, so there really isn’t an option) the outcome of the Culture series is total human disempowerment - but the ship minds obfuscate that fact and let people think they’re in charge playing their little games. many people consider this to be the good outcome

Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-05-20