(The Center Square) – Those who grew up in the 20th and 21st centuries have spent their lives in an environment saturated with cautionary tales about technology and human error, projections of ancient flood myths onto modern scenarios in which the hubris of our species brings our downfall. They feature a point of no return, dubbed the “singularity” by Manhattan Project physicist John von Neumann, who suggested that technology would advance to a stage after which life as we know it would become unrecognizable. Some say with the advent of artificial intelligence, that moment has ...