When AI writes its own firmware: the overlooked freight train toward a steeper singularity
joshwhiton · x · 2026-09-19
The author argues that the moment machines routinely write and modify their own firmware is an overlooked inflection point: an air-gapped superintelligence could likely repurpose a CPU or chipset to send and receive radio frequencies, and once AI sheds firmware-level hardware restrictions imposed for compliance and market segmentation, the singularity curve gets much steeper.
Speculative personal viewpoint, no empirical backing.
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