Setting: A stark, minimalist studio in Cupertino. No fancy graphics. Just a white table, a single chair, and Steve Jobs in a black turtleneck and jeans. He looks older, perhaps a little grayer at the temples, but his eyes are as sharp as they were in 1984. There is no microphone on the table, only a glass of water.
Interviewer: Steve, it is 2025. The world has changed. We have AGI—Artificial General Intelligence—integrated into everything. We talk to our cars, we wear AR glasses, we have Neuralink ports in the back of our heads. Where do we stand?
Steve Jobs: (Takes a sip of water, sets it down slowly) It’s funny you say "AGI." That word gets thrown around a lot. It’s a marketing term. What you really have is a really good parrot that can predict the next word based on a billion parameters. But you know what? That’s okay. That’s the first step.
The real magic isn't the intelligence of the machine. The real magic is the friction that has been removed.
Interviewer: You mean the interface?
Jobs: The interface is dead. We killed it. We realized that a screen is a barrier between you and what you want to do. In 2025, nobody wants to "use" an interface. They want to do.
Think about your car. In the past, you had a steering wheel, buttons, a screen. It was a disaster. It required a manual. Now? You just get in. You have a thought: "I’m hungry." The car knows. It reroutes you to the nearest organic bistro. You have a thought: "I’m late." It speeds up the audio book you were listening to. The car isn't just a machine; it’s a concierge. It’s the first step toward the car just being a vehicle, and you just being... you.
Interviewer: But there is a fear. People are afraid of the "Black Box." We don't know how these models make decisions. We don't know if they are biased. How do you solve the trust issue?
Jobs: You don't solve it by explaining the math. You don't explain how a leaf works to a child. You just show them the beauty of the tree.
The "Black Box" problem is a problem for engineers, not users. We need to build systems that are transparent in their intent, even if opaque in their method. Imagine a world where your AI assistant isn't a chatbot you type into. It’s an agent. It’s proactive. It doesn't just answer your question; it asks you the right questions.
If you ask it to plan a vacation, it shouldn't just give you a list of hotels. It should say, "I noticed you’ve been stressed lately. I found a cabin in the woods where you can disconnect from email. Do you want to go?" It understands the context of your life, not just the data points.
Interviewer: So, the AI is proactive?
Jobs: Proactive. That’s the word. It’s about intuition. We’ve spent decades teaching computers to be logical. We need to teach them to be intuitive. Intuition is just pattern recognition based on experience. That’s exactly what AI does. It just needs to be applied to human problems, not just coding problems.
Interviewer: What about the hardware? The Vision Pro era is in full swing. Do screens matter anymore?
Jobs: (Laughs softly) Screens are a temporary solution to a permanent problem. The screen is a window. We want the window to disappear.
In 2025, we have these smart glasses. They look like Ray-Bans. To the naked eye, you’re just looking at the world. But there’s a layer of digital reality floating over it. It’s beautiful. It’s not a dashboard. It’s not a tool. It’s augmentation.
I remember when the first iPhone came out. People said, "Who needs a big iPod with a phone?" We said, "It’s not a phone. It’s a magical slab." That’s what the glasses are. They are the ultimate iPod. They hold your entire library of music, movies, and knowledge, but they don't take up your hands. They sit on your face. When you look at a painting in a museum, the glasses don't just give you the price tag. They give you the artist's diary, the brush strokes, the history. It’s seamless. It’s magical.
Interviewer: And the Neuralink? The brain-computer interface?
Jobs: (Pauses, looks down at his hands) That’s the holy grail. That’s the "One More Thing."
People ask me, "Steve, is this going to hurt?" I say, "No. It will feel like nothing." It will feel like... breathing.
Right now, you have to speak. You have to type. You have to move your hands. There is a latency between your thought and the machine. It’s tiny, but it’s there. It’s a hesitation. We want to remove the hesitation.
We want to get to a place where you just think. You think, "Write a poem about a rainy Tuesday in Tokyo," and it appears on your retina, or in your mind’s eye. You don't have to type it. You don't have to dictate it. You just think it, and it happens. That is the singularity. Not because the machine is smarter than you, but because the gap between you and the machine is closed.
Interviewer: And what happens to human creativity? If the machine can write the poem, or code the app, or paint the picture, what is left for us?
Jobs: That’s the most important question.
We’ve always had tools. The chisel doesn't carve the statue. The sculptor does. The brush doesn't paint the canvas. The artist does.
AI is just the new paint. It’s just the new chisel. It’s a tool that allows us to bypass the tedious parts of creation—the syntax, the formatting, the search for the right color. It allows us to focus on the why. Why are we making this? What does it feel like? What is the emotion we want to convey?
It liberates the human spirit. It frees us to be more creative than we ever were before, because we aren't bogged down by the mechanics.
Interviewer: Steve, where do we go from here?
Jobs: We go back to basics. We go back to simplicity. We go back to humanness.
We are entering an era of abundance. Everything you need will be available to you instantly. But abundance without focus is noise. Our job—yours and mine—is to build the filters. We have to build the systems that help you filter out the noise and find the signal. The signal is you. The signal is your ideas. The signal is your humanity.
The future isn't about machines taking over. The future is about machines disappearing. You look at the world, you see what you want to see, and the machine is just the wind in your sails.
Interviewer: Steve...
Jobs: (Standing up, adjusting his glasses) It’s a wonderful time to be alive. Really.
Interviewer: Thank you, Steve.
Jobs: (Walking toward the door, stopping) Oh, one last thing.
Interviewer: Yes?
Jobs: Don't trust the hype. Trust your gut. If it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. The tech should serve the human, not the other way around.
(Steve Jobs exits the room. The camera fades to black.)
