AI Is Already Finding Zero-Days and Designing Proteins: Signs of an Early Intelligence Explosion
karinanguyen · x · 2026-10-19
karinanguyen argues we may be living through an AI takeoff without recognizing it. She cites AI's existing feats—finding zero-days, designing proteins, proving theorems, building entire games—as signs of intelligence becoming a general-purpose engine of discovery, noting these capabilities have barely been deployed or diffused through the global economy: "this is what the beginning of an intelligence explosion looks like."
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