The 'Singularity' scenario integrates images, metaphors, notions, and hopes also present in cyberculture: the central element of technology, its interfaces with humans, hybridization, mind-body dualism, the moral nature of AI, and the coexistence between humanity and AI. Chalmers’ “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”). Rarely have they been the object of a sustained philosophical approach (an exception would be D. The acceleration thesis of ‘singularitarianism’ and its inherent uncertainty have given rise to a variety of positions, ranging from the enthusiastic (as, for example, N. Scientific and technological development would be destined to accelerate humankind into a post-human condition, with the creation of artificial intelligence as the milestone signalling the beginning of that new era. As an heir to the utopian tradition, 'singularitarianism' espouses a theory of human history as progress towards better forms of existence. Vinge, which have laid the conditions for the rise of a 'technological singularity'. This heritage is acknowledged in the writings of V. More recently, it has become a common trope in speculative fiction. 'Singularity' thinking's ancestry can be traced back to the utopian thinking of Campanella, as well as positivistic utopianism, the works of eschatological thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, and the speculative writings of computer scientists. An analogy can be established with religious eschatology and its trademark anxiety for a form of Rapture.

However, the pace of development of information technologies is uncertain, and the predictions for the date of emergence of a 'Singularity' are pushing it farther into the future.

This notion finds its technological basis in the exponential development of information technology during the 20th century, as expressed in 'Moore’s Law'. 'Contemporary 'Singularity' thinking has its origins in Vernor Vinge’s influential proposal of the emergence of greater-than-human artificial intelligence (AI) as an ‘event horizon’ in human history.

Ai apocalypse by william hertling