Will AI Lead to Prosperity or Skynet and the Borg?

One of the most striking insights about the future comes from I.J. Good in 1965: “The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.”

Shelly Palmer recently highlighted this at the Axios AI Plus Summit, where Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed a remarkable development: Claude is now helping to build Claude. Most of the new code for Claude is already being generated by the model itself. While the loop isn’t fully autonomous yet, the percentage is rising quickly.

This marks a turning point. AI research tools are now creating better AI research tools. Once this curve steepens, the pace of change will accelerate everywhere, all at once. Tools that build tools are harder to oversee, harder to secure, and impossible to ignore.

Forget the doomsday visions of Terminator or Skynet. Even The Borg feels far-fetched. What matters is that self-improving machines are no longer theoretical—they are real, and they are transforming how we work. For video creators, the implications are profound: editing, captioning, and even entire creative workflows may soon be designed by systems that continuously redesign themselves. Production speed will never look the same.

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