Kevin Roose: Inside the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

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Imagine a 21st century Manhattan Project, tasked with creating artificial general intelligence. That’s what a handful of AI companies have been racing to do over the past decade, seeking 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.