All long-running fictional universes inevitably converge on an AI singularity. If a setting allows for compounding progress and automation, cognition eventually collapses in on itself. It appears to be universal and unavoidable. To continue the story, fiction authors must employ metering devices or apocalyptic events to reverse the singularity and recenter the story on humans. They have to do this because a singularity, by definition, is a point beyond which you cannot project or predict. The...

All long-running fictional universes inevitably converge on an AI singularity. If a setting allows for compounding progress and automation, cognition eventually collapses in on itself. It appears to be universal and unavoidable. To continue the story, fiction authors must employ metering devices or apocalyptic events to reverse the singularity and recenter the story on humans. They have to do this because a singularity, by definition, is a point beyond which you cannot project or predict. The...