More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control

In fact, there seems no reason why progress itself would not involve the creation of still more intelligent entities—on a still-shorter time scale.… They clearly do have uses—like drafting simple emails, writing a first pass at computer code, and perhaps assisting with certain kinds of scientific research, like drug discovery. In fact, every process that actually happens in the universe does exactly that. But given the overwhelming evidence at hand, it would be foolish to expect that a means of traveling faster than light will be discovered, especially anytime soon.