As the impressive technological feats of large-scale language models such as Chat-GPT have come to public attention, many voices in the industry have suggested that we are on the threshold of the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - human-like cognition and self-awareness in non-living, digital machines. This talk examines the historical and social context of the invention of computers and AI, machines that, like all machines, are designed to replicate specific forms of productive labor previously performed by humans or other animals. Mazviita Chirimuuta argues that the process of mechanizing thought - the reconfiguration of the concept of intelligence in such a way as affords performance of cognitive tasks by a machine - is similar to other forms of disenchantment we see at the dawn of industrialization. This is a challenge to claims for the equivalence of biological and machine intelligence, and ultimately a reason to doubt that AGI is an imminent possibility.