[ExI] Future AI Swarm Intelligence

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 7:57 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


> *> Of course, this view of the future assumes that humans survive the
> AGIapocalypse.*


*True. I don't think anybody is capable of making a prediction worth a damn
about what things will be like 50 months from now, let alone 50 years,
except that things will be very very different. *

*John K Clark *






Swarm Intelligence
> Kevin Kelly      Oct 12, 2026
>
> <https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/swarm-intelligence>
> Quotes:
> Fifty years from now most AI is invisible. There is nothing to see. It
> is sort of like air – always there, always on, everywhere. Something
> you need and use but take for granted. AI is so prevalent we become
> blind to it.
>
> So an average day 50 years from now in this swarm AI world, we will
> not be talking about AI. We will hardly see it. It will be everywhere,
> embedded into everything. We will have one or two personal agents we
> depend on and like; these exoselves might be like our twins or
> partners, but beyond them, we won’t be encountering AI. We’ll just
> encounter the world – cars, tools, kitchens, planes, offices, doors,
> screens – and that world has AI embedded into every bit of it.
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