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

"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." —Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk

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 outdo...