Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe.This issue consists of a lengthy essay based on a speech I recently gave, and a fictional story attempting to think through what a positive singularity might look like.The talk is the 2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture, given at the Human-Centered AI Lab (HAI Lab) in the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, in collaboration w...