We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon point. But this vision is almost certainly wrong in its most fundamental assumption. If AI development follows the path of previous major evolutionary transitions or “intelligence explosions,” our current step-change in computational intelligence will be plural, social, and deeply entangled with its forebears (us!).
Extropia's Children, Chapter 5: Irrationalism
The driving force behind rationalism, and founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, seems to think it's already too late for humanity; we are already doomed to a catastrophic AI apocalypse. How worried should we be?
P(Dumb)
A sequence of very large, conspicuous advances in computing hardware technology have to happen before it makes sense to assign AI doomsday scenarios a probability greater than zero. People who make law and policy, and the people who have their attention, really need to smarten up about “artificial intelligence”.
Justin Brannan on Twitter / X
Worst case AI scenario may not be all-powerful, ungovernable machines but a tiny group of all-powerful, ungovernable people. We ponder the sci-fi horror of civilization ending but should focus on the more plausible horror of a society divided into haves and have-nots, forever. https://t.co/5nrw7wwQSH— Justin Brannan (@JustinBrannan) October 20, 2026
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?
An AI Future Is Much Shakier Than You Think
The ghosts of past futurism give pause to predictions of digital change.
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?
“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…
How we use AI at Stalwart
It is difficult to have a conversation about software in 2026 without AI showing up in it. Two years ago the interesting question was…
AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns
AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.
