Verner Vinge (Was Artificial Intelligence in Government)
I think Verner Vinge is a more interesting character as far as the future and AI and government goes. His prediction is that around 2035 something will happen. His predictions were made around the 70's and we are still on course because we are still on the graphs that he had drawn then.
Whether that means we get roboticised or whether we become AI dominated, or whether there is so much change in one day that we can't be sure of the next day, nobody knows. Its singularity in human existence.
I like to think we can know what is at the singularity by probing it. One way of probing it is to look around for technologies of today and advance it as far as we can through our imagination and then see how it would fit into a singularity where change is rapid by noting how compatible it is with rapid change.
If we take neural digitization as an example, and assume that the crude attempts today will result in fully functional electronic replacement in ten years time, and then around 20 years they are digitizing entire sections of the brain, and by 2035, we reach total digital capability. Thats compatible with a singularity because our computing power through thoughts will become 'infinite' in line with the expectations at the singularity.