Andreion De Castro for Noema Magazine Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations. By James O’Sullivan – lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. The machines are coming for us, or so we’re told. Not today, but soon enough that we must seemingly reorganize civilization around their arrival. In boardrooms, lecture theatres, parliamentary hearings and breathless tech journalism, the specter of superintelligence increasingly haunts our discourse. It’s often framed as … Continue reading The Politics Of Superintelligence