The Gentle Singularity

Sam Altman argues that humanity is past the event horizon and the takeoff toward digital superintelligence has started, though the changes so far feel less strange than expected. He writes that AI driving faster scientific progress and productivity could produce large gains in quality of life, and that in the 2030s intelligence and energy could become wildly abundant. He says scientists report being two or three times more productive with AI, and that the cost of intelligence should eventually converge toward the cost of electricity. He calls for solving the alignment problem and then making superintelligence cheap, widely available, and not too concentrated in any one person, company, or country.