The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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Well, maybe it won't happen at all Sometimes I try to imagine the symptoms that we should expect to see if the Singularity is not to develop.
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