Will acceleration outpace adaptation at the dawn of AI?

Humanity is not prepared to change as quickly as we need. The more technology we develop and the more of us there are, the faster and smarter we have to evolve – smarter, if you will. We are approaching a critical mass where the increasing difference between evolutionary pressures and our need to adapt reaches a tipping point.

This, in turn, coincides with the emerging AI singularity – not a coincidence at all, but rather convergence – and its diverse subsingularities. We are seeing increasing anxiety among younger generations, confusion about the uncertain future, rising unemployment, rising productivity, and global restructuring and unrest. There are many potential “AI disasters”¹. Disruptive political cycles, a pandemic, two major wars and then the accelerator, gasoline on the proverbial fire – the leap in “artificial intelligence” (a term first coined in 1956) with the advent of “Transformer architecture” first published in 2017 (Attention is all you…