AGI Won't Send You a Notification
Technological revolutions rarely announce themselves. The agricultural revolution had no press release. The industrial revolution had no countdown. Even the internet only became obvious in hindsight. Artificial General Intelligence will likely arrive the same way. There will be no moment when the world collectively agrees that AGI has appeared. No headline. No global notification. Instead, there will only be a moment years later when people look back and say: That was when everything started to change. By then, the transformation will already be underway. And this time, we may have far less time to adapt. The Speed of This Revolution Technological revolutions have always accelerated. When the steam engine entered factories in the late 18th century, it began replacing manual labor. Yet Britain did not pass its first meaningful labor protection law until 1833—almost seventy years later. The Second Industrial Revolution moved faster. Electricity, steel, and chemical industries reshaped entire economies within decades. Germany transformed from an agrarian country into an industrial power in less than thirty years. The internet accelerated things again. ...