- What scares the people making AI

As artificial intelligence becomes woven into daily life, the race to build increasingly powerful systems is only accelerating. In this episode of Science Quickly, tech journalist Kevin Roose discusses the rise of artificial general intelligence and explains why some of the people developing AI are among its most vocal worriers and what the technology's rapid evolution could mean for society, safety and the future of humanity.



Recommended Reading:

The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence. Kevin Roose. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026



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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Sushmita Pathak, Allison Rodgers and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was edited by Alex Sugiura, with fact-checking by Marielle Issa and Aaron Shattuck. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.


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