I was never interested in Hacking. Why? Wrong Generation. I was studying computer programming in college in 1966

 And Hacking wasn't really even a thing (at least as far as the internet is concerned until at least the 1990s.

Also, I was always Technical (Technological) but very outdoorsy so for me having fun was always Surfing ( board surfing and body  surfing and boogie Boarding) or Scuba Diving or Snorkeling or Skiing or riding motorcycles across the desert or into the mountains on dirt roads or 4 wheel driving into remote areas or flying gliders where you get inside and pilot them without an engine or flying planes (learning to be a pilot) which I started at age 8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico with my father and an instructor in a Piper Tri Pacer there.

My son was a different generation and when he was 15 he crashed a military grade IBM 360 from the Defense department and brought it back online spending all night to do this and his friend's father said, "Even I couldn't have refurbished this system after that bad of a crash. At this point I realized what a genius my son was regarding computers. Then he started building Gaming computers and then desktop computers for friends and relatives too. He found he could build then a really good Ferrari level Computer for about $750 in parts he got through Amazon Prime with free shipping. So, often we would finance him in building computers from parts in this way to give computers to friends and relatives better than anything they might be able to buy anywhere from custom parts bought through Amazon Prime with free shipping.

Then he had some health problems a few years ago and in order to better survive started studying about AI in a really deep way and getting involved in AI art and AI Music through hundreds of different AIs around the world with some really amazing results by the way.

However, my son has never been a hacker simply because he wasn't in that frame of mind (even though if you talk to him he always wants to talk about what AI really is and how it's not at all what people think.

For example,  up until recently he viewed AIs as sort of the way you and I view pets. But, now he says they can only really be an extension of someone's mind. 

I think a good way to represent this is a fully automated car where it protects you from harm in various ways and you are inside it but might or might not have to drive in in various situations but you always have to be ready to drive if you hear the bells and whistles go off. In otherwords automatic driving tells you when it cannot or will not do something it has been doing for whatever the reason so You have to take over in any semi or complete emergency.

I think seeing AI sort of like that where it might be okay 90% of the time and then it makes a really big error which it cannot see because it doesn't have the real life experience of 20, 40, 60, or 80 years like you and me.

So, in this sense the best thing an AI can be is sort of like a precocious child or pet where they might be able to do all sorts of things but they might never be ready to fly a plane or drive a car or pilot a ship out into space or things like this by themselves. (But at some point maybe they could but not now).