Deepmind researchers propose Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence over singularity

deepmind researchers benjamin bratton, blaise agüera y arcas, and james manyika argue that artificial general intelligence will emerge from a social system where people and ai agents collaborate. they propose artificial symbiotic intelligence, an ecosystem where humans and machines coexist, shape each other, and make decisions together. this vision is based on the idea that intelligence is a social phenomenon, not an individual trait. the researchers draw on earlier papers, including one that found reasoning models can produce patterns resembling internal debate and collective thought. this challenges traditional ai research focused on building isolated machine intelligence.