The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end. Stowers and his guests, many of whom work in the AI industry, were gathered to watch a newly released YouTube video in which two OpenAI researchers divulged new details about an alarming cybersecurity breach. Perhaps this would have been an odd way to spend a weeknight were they not in San Francisco, in a neighborhood that is filled…