Technological singularity
A hypothetical future point where technological change (often via advanced AI) accelerates beyond reliable human forecasting or control.
The technological singularity is a speculative idea: at some stage, progress, often linked to AGI or self-improving systems, could speed up so fast that humans can no longer predict or steer outcomes in familiar ways.
In public AI debate the word is sometimes used loosely for “very powerful AI soon.” In the narrower sense it is a hypothesis, not a measured milestone. Related but distinct ideas include AGI, superintelligence (ASI) forecasts, and long-term alignment questions, not the everyday capabilities of current LLMs. For worries about synthetic online content, see Dead Internet theory.