The age of wonders and terrors.

The age of wonders and terrors. “The test is this: if we took the news of these past few weeks and sent it back in time twenty years, would I agree that it looked like the beginning of an AI Singularity? The intellectually honest answer is: yes, absolutely. But then that’s all we need. No backsies.” Aaronson’s take: the conservative skepticism of 2006, updated for 2026, now that AI is showing up in front-page math and theorem-proving. ~ learn more