Scott Aaronson says the singularity has begun
birchlse · x · 2026-09-16
Complexity theorist and former OpenAI alignment researcher Scott Aaronson has publicly stated that "the singularity has begun," according to a reshare by Andrew Curran. It's a striking stance from someone whose career was built on academic caution, signaling how aggressively some frontier-lab insiders now rate the current capability curve.
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