AGI is coming and nobody cares

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By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been saying for years — years! — that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would be something like a singularity. When we achieve AGI, Altman and others have said, it will fundamentally reshape society.

At the New York Times DealBook Summit this week in New York City, Altman said never mind.

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