Podcast: Kevin Roose on AI rivalries and safety
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Big Technology Podcast host Alex Kantrowitz interviews Kevin Roose, author of The AGI Chronicles, about whether an AI industry marked by personal rivalries, infighting, and mistrust can be trusted to build technology more powerful than humans.
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