Everyone saw her as a radical.” He laughed. “You have to remember that back then everyone was still freaking out about AI. Hollywood was still pushing movies about AI-induced Armageddon. All the academics were screaming about the singularity.” “Singularity?” Flora said, and shook her head as if she thought Pedersen was talking nonsense. “The point where humans lose control to intelligent machines,” Pedersen said, “and with it our dominant status, as it were.”