Computer scientist Matt Jones of Swansea University argues that the dominant image of AI as an overlord, something faster and smarter that will assimilate us, is the wrong frame, and proposes thinking of AI as an environment instead. He distinguishes three kinds of power, generative, instrumental and environmental, using Michelangelo's tools and the design of cities and buffets to show how surroundings quietly shape behavior. Drawing on the 1992 debate between Nicholas Negroponte and Mark Weiser, he contrasts a future built around a personal AI butler with one built around calm, background technology. Other threads include the psychology of extended cognition (skateboards, scalpels, the Google effect on memory), the risk of AI-driven knowledge collapse, and Tristan Harris's warnings about attention and big tech. Recorded at Barnard's Inn Hall for Gresham College, the lecture closes with concrete suggestions for designing AI around alignment, nudges and desirable difficulty rather than frictionless convenience.