Feel the AGI: Kevin Roose on the Strange, Intoxicating Race to Superintelligence
What’s really fueling the race to build superintelligence? Science? Idealism? Money? Try spite. “These guys hate each other,” says Kevin Roose. “It’s grudges all the way down.” Those rivalries, it turns out, have pushed AI forward faster than any of them thinks is wise.
Kevin would know. Until recently, he was a tech columnist at the New York Times and co-host of the massively popular Hard Fork podcast. (If you miss his dulcet tones, he and Casey Newton will be back with a new show, Machine Gods, later this month.) He has also spent the last few years interviewing more than 150 of the people…
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