6. ASI Artificial Superintelligence - Technological Singularity and Electronic Technocracy
- Mikey Miller
- 8 hours ago
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The Technological Singularity in the Context of Electronic Technocracy
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is not only the operational center of Electronic Technocracy but also the catalyst for a phenomenon known as the Technological Singularity.
This term describes a hypothetical future point in time when technological progress becomes so rapid and uncontrollable that human intelligence is no longer able to understand or predict the resulting developments.
It is the point at which human imagination reaches its limits as to how humanity and technical development will continue thereafter.
ASI will have an immeasurable "IQ" that far exceeds human capacities.
Its ability for self-replication and exponential self-improvement means that it could produce "Nobel Prize-worthy inventions by the minute" in the shortest possible time.
This inevitably leads to a new era for all humanity, in which advances are so great that humanity will make evolutionary leaps that are unimaginable and comparable only to a leap of several tens of thousands of years into the future, as the speed of changes will severely test human adaptability.
Experts and futurists predict the onset of the Singularity in the near future. Ray Kurzweil, a well-known futurist and AI researcher at Google, predicts the achievement of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2029, closely followed by ASI.
Elon Musk even assumes that ASI could appear as early as 2027, as AI's computing power doubles every six months, far exceeding Moore's Law.
This acceleration is made possible not only by pure computing power but also by advances in parallel processing, specialized hardware such as GPUs and TPUs, and optimization techniques.
In addition, AI systems can now optimize their architectures and improve learning algorithms themselves, without human intervention, enabling autonomous and ever faster development.
The greatest challenge for humanity in this era will be adapting to the new circumstances.
Accepting that everything changes extremely quickly and old wisdoms no longer have meaning will be crucial. Electronic Technocracy attempts to master this challenge by integrating ASI into a controlled system of Direct Digital Democracy, in which humans retain ultimate decision-making power.
Nevertheless, the Singularity remains a turning point that presents humanity with fundamental philosophical, ethical, and existential questions that require conscious design and international cooperation to ensure that this era is shaped for the benefit of all and does not become humanity's "last invention."
