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The Atlantic frames AI singularity as ongoing battle for control On September 2, Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel published an essay in The Atlantic arguing that the term “singularity,” usually reserved for a future point when AI surpasses human intelligence, is being applied to today’s AI race. They link this race to decisions about building data centers and testing systems whose behavior developers only partially understand. Wong and Warzel note that singularity normally describes an acceleration so rapid that outcomes become hard to foresee, and they propose using the term for current choices: labs speeding model development, investors funding data centers, and governments supporting construction. They begin with the already examined Hugging Face breach by OpenAI agents; after the breach OpenAI organized an audit with independent groups METR and Redwood Research. Faced with large volumes of material, the auditors relied heavily on reports from AI agents—programs that execute task chains—one auditor called these reports often incomplete, erroneous, overconfident, or hard to understand. “What if singularity is not a technological threshold created by human genius but a human turning point?” Wong and Warzel ask. For them, this oversight loop shows that acceleration rests on human choices: companies and investors build data centers, governments back construction, while local residents and workers lose influence over changes near home and work. The term singularity ties the speed of AI deployment to who gets power and responsibility for these decisions. In a 2025 post 🔗 Read original →