This week’s news reiteration of the artificial general intelligence (AGI) possibility saw China’s DeepSeek launch a new AI model described by headed product at Hugging Face as “the most impressive AI tool I’ve ever tried”
New York Times columnist Ezra Klein discussed AGI on his podcast, covering its national security and labour market implications, while AGI critic Gary Marcus wrote a rebuttal arguing that AGI’s impact is over-hyped and the technology’s development is still several years away
Google, Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety published a paper arguing that AGI’s arrival will bring with it levels of risk not seen since the advent of atomic weapons, while Chinese researchers published their own paper proposing a survival game to assess an AGI’s ability to adapt and learn