But Anthropic has been honing its storytelling skills for years. In fact, its public messaging is a master class in narrative capture.

Earlier this month, Jack Clark, the company’s cofounder and head of policy, gave a speech at the IMF meeting in Bangkok in which he announced to the assembled economists, bankers, and lawmakers that the singularity is already here.

Introduced by the science fiction writer and futurist Vernor Vinge around 40 years ago (and long debated on the nerdier fringes of the internet), the singularity is supposed to be the point at which technology gets so good that it outstrips the abilities of its makers.

Humans are left in the dust, the idea goes, no longer able to compete with—or even understand—the fruits of their former creation.

And this fictional world that many of us have imagined since we were kids?…