Benjamin Bratton: the singularity is the wrong picture — the next intelligence explosion will be social
bratton · x · 2026-09-24
Benjamin Bratton argues the lone-model-bootstrapping-itself-into-godhood singularity story is probably wrong: every major evolutionary transition, from multicellularity to symbolic culture, has been social — and the next intelligence explosion will be too. He concludes alignment should be seen as the co-evolutionary outcome of contact among humans, agents and institutions, not a constraint engineered in beforehand.
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