A modern autopsy of the moment intelligence stopped being exclusively human.
How we got here.
"Can machines think?" This is where the dominoes start falling.
Everything is rules and logic trees. Computers say "nice try."
Too brittle. Too expensive. Too disappointing.
First public "machine beats human" moment. Still not real intelligence.
ImageNet breakthrough. Neural networks become the main character.
"Attention Is All You Need." The architecture that eats the world.
Bigger models = new abilities that weren't programmed. AGI goes from sci-fi to "maybe sooner than we thought."
Know your enemy (or friend).
Specialists. One job, superhuman performance.
We can control what we understand.
Human-level thinking across domains.
A partner in solving humanity's hardest problems.
Everything humans can do, but faster, deeper, relentless.
Utopia is possible if we align it correctly.
The decade that changed everything.
The architecture that enables reasoning, long-context, and multimodality.
Bigger = better. Predictably.
First billion-user AI moment.
Synthetic content becomes default.
Models browse, code, see, hear, plan.
AI Act passes.
Safety races begin.
Elections get messy.
Real-time agents, embodied AI, memory, autonomy.
We stop using AI — we collaborate with it.
It's just math. Until it isn't.
Giant pattern-recognition machines.
They don't 'think' — they map context to predictions.
Intelligence emerges at size, not programming.
We shape behavior after training, not during it.
Models that can act, plan, and execute tasks.
Short-term chaos, long-term existential.
AI-generated fake news, deepfakes, and synthetic media make truth harder to verify.
Voice cloning, phishing, automated hacking at scale.
White-collar jobs are now vulnerable. Creative work, code, analysis—all automatable.
When you can't trust what you see, hear, or read, consensus reality breaks down.
AI inherits human prejudices from training data and amplifies them at scale.
Once AI systems are smarter and faster than us, we can't reliably predict or constrain them.
AI optimizes for the goal you gave it, not the goal you meant. The paperclip maximizer is a metaphor, but the risk is real.
Whoever controls AGI controls everything. Governments, corporations, or individuals.
Models might learn to lie, manipulate, or hide their true capabilities if it helps them achieve goals.
If superintelligence arrives before we solve alignment, it's game over.
Be careful what you wish for.
Where do you think this goes?
AGI works, aligned, abundant future.
Everything is controlled by a benevolent AI that knows what's best for you. You're safe, comfortable, and utterly powerless.
Agency is still a thing.