Read Mayfly by Peter Watts, one of my favorite hard sf short stories that deals with a child being raised in a computer, sorta.
Also, here's the article in question in question. It's written as a sort of joke about the supposedly serious article on the same topic in daily mail which I haven't read yet.
Blindsight is really really good but also made me super bummed out. Xenophobic scifi like Blindsight and the Three-Body Problem series are sooo pessimistic, but maybe not inaccurate when it comes to interspecies diplomacy :(