IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
What we have is a data glut.
Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.