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

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.