Stephenson denotes the AI primer used by the Chinese girls mouse Kingdom as vastly inferior to the one driven one on one and I tend to see that as the best metaphor for AI and social interaction we have. The primer has a quality which is to map parenting to a device. Parenting through AI is a-social.

Fiction at best is a vehicle for thinking about reality. It doesn't shape it and it can bend the rules for rhetorical value. There is no rod logic as yet. Food assembly by matter glue doesn't exist and meta materials have very limited applications.