It's saying that some particular thing ("it") must happen all of the time (not just most of the time) if machine intelligence is to evolve at the same pace as machine power. Presumably "it" refers to some occurrence or state of affairs that has previously been mentioned. It is not very clear to me from this fragment exactly what "machine power" means.
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