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Apocalypse or a four-day week? What AI might mean for you

Apocalypse or a four-day week? What AI might mean for you

If you’re “AGI-pilled” and you believe artificial intelligence will soon surpass humans, you’re probably worried about your job. But insiders reckon that might be the least of our problems.

To be “AGI-pilled” is to be open to the transformative power of artificial general intelligence – but the AI prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom.  Bethany Rae

It is 2027 and the world-leading US artificial intelligence company OpenBrain has lost control of its latest system, Agent 4, which has grown so smart that it hides its true abilities and goals from the human engineers and earlier AI models monitoring its development.

Over in China, a rival company, DeepCent, is only two months behind in the race to build an artificial superintelligence that surpasses human intelligence in all domains.

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