All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.