Artificial intelligence is in the news. Technology pioneers and scientists like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking are worried that AI will eventually take over. Even more, they see it as the greatest threat of the human race. Much of the contemporary science fiction contributes to these worries. But Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks humans will be perfectly fine if robots take over. “They’re going to be smarter than us, and if they’re smarter than us, then they’ll realize they need us,” he recently declared at the Freescale Technology Forum in Austin, Texas. “We want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time.” There is many an article about Wozniak’s brave hypothesis on the World Wide Web, but it is worth reading the accompanying comments, and especially those by today’s youth. By and large, they are happy with the prospect of humans as robots’ pets. Although some of them do mention their own pets’ boring diets and the unfortunate neutering, the leisure and comfort the pets enjoy are still attractive to them. As Wozniak has astutely suggested, many of them indeed want to be family pets. This is what contemporary parenting amounts to, anyway, and especially in America and Northwestern Europe. In short, AI is the least of these particular pets’ problems. To them, it actually smacks of the everlasting solution to all their problems.