A reported chronicle of the high-stakes race to build AGI, tracing lab rivalries, breakthroughs, and fears it could save or end humanity.
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A reported chronicle of the high-stakes race to build AGI, tracing lab rivalries, breakthroughs, and fears it could save or end humanity.
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This is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial general intelligence. For the last decade, a handful of AI companies have been racing to build the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence, or AGI―a computer system capable of outdoing humans at almost anything. Some of them hoped AGI would cure diseases and heal the planet. Others feared it could kill everyone on Earth. They decided to build it anyway. Kevin Roose’s The ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Discussions of AI existential risk and potential human extinction
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Religious content
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Brief techno-mystic machine-god and alignment-with-values themes
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central AI policy, regulation, and accelerationist-vs-doomer ideology
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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