When AI becomes so clever, so fast, and so capable that humans stop being the smartest species, it’s probably time for most to get out of the room.
And the ones left should take a leaf out of Muhammad Ali’s book of dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee, just don’t get cornered.
It’s now time to wake up to the World of Singularity, where everything is predictable. Every generation gets one big technological punch in the face, and it’s Gen Z’s time now. The Singularity has come faster than most can believe.
Only 3 years ago, I was writing about ChatGPT, a new way of working which most hadn’t got their heads around, even then.
Now, only 3 years later, AI has raced forward faster than light and is about to take control of everyone’s lives in ways the ordinary person has no idea of, or just how obedient they will have to become.
With the past Singularity, (I use the word lightly to compare things that have changed our lives.)
Such as.
Our grandparents got electricity.
My parents got a television.
We got the internet.
Gen Z gets AI that learns faster than humans can blink.
The Singularity: Or why the world is about to get very weird, very fast, as someone who’s seen a few unpredictable cycles over the last 75 years and knows this one’s very different.
Elon Musk says this “singularity” moment is coming this year, while Klaus Schwab has said it could be 2050.
Some say, “Stop scaring me, I’ve only just figured out WhatsApp.”
But here’s the truth:
It doesn’t matter who’s right. The ground is already moving under our feet, and fast.
What the Singularity Actually Means (Without the Sci Fi Nonsense) Forget the Hollywood version with killer robots and glowing red eyes. The real singularity is simple: (They won’t have red eyes). But depopulation could be an agenda.
Imagine something that: learns a new skill in minutes, improves itself without asking permission, solves problems while you’re still making a cup of tea. You see, humans jog while AI sprints, and soon AI will fly.
Why Experts Can’t Agree on the Date. Because they’re measuring different things. Elon Musk looks at the tech and says, It’s basically here. Klaus Schwab looks at governments and says, they’ll take 25 years to write the paperwork, and both are right in their opinions.
Technology moves like a cheetah. Institutions move like a sleepy tortoise. This reminds me of when we started the Kiddicare retail business in 1977; our thinking was like the cheetah, whereas the established trade remained in tortoise mode until they vanished.
The singularity isn’t a calendar event; it’s a curve, and we’re already climbing it.
What I think this means for ordinary people, here’s the part most people won’t understand until it’s too late.
Jobs will vanish as AI quietly takes out the boring bits of your job and does those tasks better.
As for employers, I see a great opportunity to get ahead of the competition by using AI as an excuse to reduce their staff numbers. In contrast, I would redeploy my staff, the ones with industry knowledge with the human touch, as AI can’t go there.
So, the people and businesses who thrive will be the ones who do what AI can’t. Things like building trust, reading a room, making judgement calls, handling messy human emotions, and telling a story that lands.
In other words, the human stuff becomes the valuable stuff. We learned this over 34 years in Kiddicare, staff are the most valuable assets, with or without AI.
Life will get easier and at the same time more confusing. Your fridge will nag you. Your car will diagnose itself. Your phone will negotiate your broadband bill, and your doctor will use AI to spot problems before you even feel them, but then will it tell you? Depends on their agenda.
Convenience will explode, so will the feeling be that you’re living in a world built by someone younger, faster, and probably slightly unhinged?
The people who say “I’m too old for this” will struggle, while the people who say “show me how it works” will win.
Adaptability becomes the new superpower. The old rule: learn a trade and stick with it. The new rule: keep learning or get left behind, but that’s forever more, whereas if you get a trade, you will be a prized asset.
What this means for businesses. This is where the real disruption hits. Speed becomes everything. AI will let a three-person team do what used to take a department of 30.
Out of the surplus 27, keep the ones with the human/customer touch, also keep the practical ones to make it easier in every way for the employed, and the ones that won’t change will be depopulated from the business.
The companies that survive will be the ones that move fast and break their own habits. It’s not new; we’ve been doing it for years now, and it will become the norm.
AI will: write code, design products, run marketing, analyse data, and manage logistics.
If your business doesn’t use AI, your competitor will, and they’ll do it cheaper, faster, and with fewer headaches.
Competition becomes global overnight. A teenager in Nairobi with AI tools can compete with a London agency. Borders stop mattering. Talent becomes everywhere.
Trust becomes the new luxury. When AI can fake anything, voices, videos, photos, and entire personalities, the only thing people will pay extra for is authenticity, real humans, real stories, and real values.
Businesses that fake it will die. Businesses that mean it will thrive.
Should We Be Frightened? Oh yes! not of AI but of standing still.
The singularity isn’t a monster. It’s a mirror. It shows us what we’re good at, what we’re bad at, and what we’ve been avoiding.
The danger isn’t AI becoming too smart. It’s humans becoming too slow.
The Bottom Line: Whether the singularity arrives in 2025 or 2050 doesn’t matter. What matters is this: AI is already reshaping the world. The people and businesses who learn to dance with it will thrive. Those who pretend it’s not happening will be depopulated.
This isn’t the end; it’s a reduction of humanity. It’s the end of the old way of doing things. And like every revolution before it.