The Singularity: Could AI End Humanity?
The AI singularity is the hypothetical moment when artificial intelligence becomes smart enough to improve itself, triggering runaway growth beyond human control. Whether it could end humanity is unproven and sharply contested. Leading researchers put the odds of AI-caused extinction anywhere from a fraction of a percent to roughly one in five. Where the singularity […]
Grey Goo Scenario: From Drexler’s 1986 Engines of Creation to 2024 Nanotechnology Risk Assessments
The grey goo scenario, named in K. Eric Drexler’s 1986 book Engines of Creation Chapter 11, describes a hypothetical extinction-by-self-replicating-nanobot event. By 2004 Drexler himself walked the framing back. By 2024 the working risk surface for advanced nanotech is biotech misuse, AI alignment, and nanomedicine regulation — not runaway molecular machines. Where the phrase came […]