Surprisingly not mentioned in the post: The whole Free Software movement aside, RMS has actually spent a chunk of his academic career at the MIT AI lab, researching artificial intelligence and co-authored some papers during his time there.

Granted, many of their research topics at the time are now no longer considered AI topics, part of what ultimately lead to the AI winter at the time.

Particularly because of that connection, however, I think it could indeed be interesting to hear some more from his perspective on developments in recent years.