OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) — a machine that can outperform humans at all labor. That could lead to a permanent oligarchy.
Over the past year, I’ve had many disquieting realizations — that the American voter is more forgiving of insurrections than inflation, that being 37 means having one bad knee (and another not particularly good one), and that the New York Mets made a... [19112 chars]