The Economist.
The frontier of the AI race is not just about the technology.
It's also about the people who lead the labs.
Open AI's Sam Altman.
There's no like one big magic red button we have that blows up the data center,
which I think some people sort of assume exists.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei.
My feeling is that almost every decision that I make
feels like it's kind of balanced on the edge of a knife.
And xAI's Elon Musk.
I don't think anyone's ultimately going to have control over digital super intelligence.
You know, any more than say, a chimp would have control over humans.
These are the public faces of an increasingly intense contest
to build AI models that exceed human capabilities,
whether they call it AGI or super intelligence.
You'll notice I missed out an important player in that list.
Demis Hassabis, the boss of Google DeepMind.
He doesn't feature as often in the headlines,
even though he's been at the forefront of AI research longer than any of the others.
DeepMind is, of course, the company that built AlphaGo,