The Singularity of AI

The hyperbolic boosterism and also the doomerism around AI often invokes this idea that it's a development akin to the discovery of steam power or even fire. Kissinger said, quote, I think the technology companies have led the way into a new period of human consciousness. We are going to be permanently tainted, poisoned by their visions if we don't explore what it could mean for us," he says.