Ultraintelligent Machine

The 1965 Paper That Foretold Our AI Nightmare β€” And the Man Who Wrote It

In 1965, WWII codebreaker Jack Good predicted the AI singularity with terrifying accuracy. His paper described exactly how machines would surpass human intelligence, yet it was ignored for decades. Now, as AI panic grips the world, we’re only catching up to a 60-year-old prophecy. The modern AI boom is not newβ€”it’s a delayed echo of cryptographic thinking from Bletchley Park.