The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

THE AGI CHRONICLES is not a futurist manifesto, an academic chin-stroker, a corporate biography, or a self-help manual.It’s the inside story of the birth of AGI, as told by the people who are bringing it into existence, or trying to stop it from coming into existence, and who are grappling with the consequences before anyone else. Building Artificial General Intelligence - a machine that is as smart or smarter than humans, at everything our brains can do - has been the goal for the world’s biggest technology companies for about the last decade, and it is probably the most consequential technological project in history.Only a few hundred people are fully awake to what’s actually happening on the AI frontier, or how short the timelines are.Powerful AI will reshape society - and most governments and big corporations already view this conclusion as obvious, as evidenced by the trillions of dollars they’re spending to get there first.New York Times journalist Kevin Roose may be the only per