Singularity Has Already Begun

A senior academic argues that a sequence of recent AI achievements—AlphaGo, large language models, coding/reasoning agents, and rapid math advances—amount to the beginning of a technological singularity, albeit one whose effects are highly uneven across industries and societies. The claim reframes the timeline from speculative future risk to an ongoing, observable transition that is already reshaping career prospects and what counts as meaningful human labor. — If accepted, this shifts policy debates from hypothetical future containment to immediate questions about education, labor policy, economic redistribution, and governance of concentrated AI capacity.