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While the world’s attention is fixed on wars, lab scandals, and the aftermath of the pandemic, another threat is quietly growing — antimicrobial resistance, which has already embedded itself in excess mortality statistics, and no one wants to look closely at that number.

Singularity is a myth with excellent production values: a clean villain, a clean apocalypse, and a clean date on the calendar. Reality is messier and less cinematic, a slow transfer of wealth, a quiet erosion of privacy, and a data center draining a town’s water supply.

While the world watches the semiconductor supply chain, a far more insidious war is being waged in the silent architecture of artificial intelligence (AI).