Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun

In this Import AI issue, Jack Clark publishes the Per Jacobsson lecture he gave at the IMF meeting in Bangkok, arguing that AI systems operating at the frontier of human science show the singularity has begun. He cites AI contributions to open math problems, AI-designed viruses and drug candidates, and benchmark jumps such as Humanity's Last Exam (8% to 67.7%) and FrontierMath (2% to 94%), plus a theoretical physics test where a model scored 98% partly by finding errors in expert answers. He urges building compute, power, lab and robotics capacity to share the benefits, while exercising restraint and oversight, especially in biological and AI research.