Matthew O’Lemmon

The Technological Singularity as the Emergence of a Collective Consciousness: An Anthropological Perspective

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society February 1, 2020 Matthew O’Lemmon

The technological singularity is popularly envisioned as a point in time when (a) an explosion of growth in artificial intelligence (AI) leads to machines becoming smarter than humans in every capacity, even gaining consciousness in the process; or (b) humans become so integrated with AI that we could no longer be called human in the traditional sense. This article argues that the technological...