It seems kind of obvious in retrospect. I used to envision "the singularity" as somehow organically emerging from distributed technology and that would make it

It seems kind of obvious in retrospect. I used to envision "the singularity" as somehow organically emerging from distributed technology and that would make it benevolent. But that was so naive. The singularity was always going to require massive investments of a scale that only monopolies or militaries can provide. That it currently looks like it will come out of ad-tech monopolies comfortable with psychological manipulation at a global scale is the most terrifying possibility of all.