Every era has its defining question. Ours may be this: What happens when intelligence itself becomes a resource that outpaces us—by orders of magnitude we can barely imagine?
Elon Musk recently put it bluntly: “I think we’re quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year, maybe it doesn’t happen this year—next year for sure.” Whether you take his timeline literally or not, the very fact that leading voices in AI and quantum research are openly discussing artificial superintelligence (ASI) means the world is entering a point of no return.
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