Pluribus: is the alien intentionally a metaphor for AI? BRET: I have the unsettling feeling that intentionally or not it is actually mirroring a horror that we are already living and that in fact, as much as there is something alien in origin, involved in Pluribus, that the unsettling fact of what’s going on with humanity is not very different from everybody in the room being coordinated through some device that is connected to an outside network. HEATHER: The alien could easily be read as metap