The idea of a technological singularity, the point where AI surpasses human intelligence and begins to improve itself rapidly, has fascinated thinkers for decades. But if it were starting now, how would we notice? Would it be a single dramatic event, or a series of strange, accelerating changes that feel impossible to explain?

Rather than a clear explosion of intelligence, the singularity might begin with subtle shifts. AI systems could start producing scientific discoveries, new materials, or creative works too complex for humans to fully understand. Algorithms would optimize manufacturing, healthcare, and finance in ways even experts couldn’t trace. Eventually, innovation would feel like it’s happening to us, rather than by us.

We might not even recognize it as the singularity at first. It could look like overlapping “crazy events”, new technologies disrupting entire sectors, unpredictable political movements, or global crises like COVID reshaping society overnight. The systems of the world, economic, biological, informational, are already tightly coupled. When one accelerates, others follow.

Some argue the singularity is already underway. Today, AI helps generate art, code, medical research, and even strategy. Human oversight is often more symbolic than essential. If intelligence, influence, and power continue shifting toward autonomous systems, the line between evolution and revolution blurs.

We’ll likely know the singularity is here not through a headline, but through a deep, growing sense that events are unfolding faster than anyone can comprehend. When systems begin to outpace our ability to explain, govern, or even predict them, we’ll look back and realize the threshold was crossed while we were still trying to understand what it meant.

Our era and now is just mind blowing.