> It's true there is no super AI around the corner but we have thousands of dumb bots that are controlling us already. They are only increasing.

The article does acknowledge this:

> “What scares him is our own passivity. ‘We should be worried about people who aren’t getting smart while technology gets smarter,’ Gigerenzer says. ‘The more sophisticated algorithms become, the more sophisticated people need to become… The algorithms have become better over the last ten years by sheer computational powers, by the video capabilities and other things.”