Unless you believe more intelligence magically bypasses all of this, or that it necessarily means power-seeking and deception, then the future is less about an overnight singularity and more about navigating a massively accelerated, but ultimately jagged and physical, industrial revolution. Self-improvement itself will be uneven: a jagged frontier where breakthroughs in some domains coexist with stubborn stasis in others. We have a window of time to upgrade our institutions for what’s coming, and I think one of the most effective ways to do so is by deploying AI across governance and institutions themselves.