{"product_id":"the-agi-chronicles-the-inside-story-of-the-race-to-create-an-artificial-superintelligence-9781398555327","title":"The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inside story on the race for artificial general intelligence, perhaps the most significant invention of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Exciting and brilliantly reported’ \u003c\/b\u003eWalter Isaacson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Highlights just how much the ambitions, ideological divides and personality clashes of a group small enough to fit in a couple of classrooms have shaped what may turn out to be the most consequential technology in modern history’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the trillion-dollar sprint to create artificial general intelligence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the last decade, a handful of companies have been racing to build the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a computer system capable of outdoing humans at almost anything. Some of them hoped AGI would cure diseases and heal the planet. Others feared it could kill everyone on Earth. They decided to build it anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on more than 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as well as unpublished company documents and research memos, Kevin Roose reconstructs the most consequential decade in tech history. With reportorial rigor and page-turning suspense, he takes us inside the rooms where researchers watch large language models learn to talk, reason and code at superhuman speed. He brings us to the White House, where top officials grapple with a technology that is improving too fast to understand, let alone regulate. He offers new details on the disagreements that led the founders of Anthropic to defect from OpenAI and fresh reporting on Sam Altman’s dramatic firing – and equally dramatic reinstatement – as CEO. He charts Google’s frantic attempt to catch up to the AI frontier. And he ushers us into the San Francisco AI scene, where ‘accelerationists’ in hacker houses and ‘doomers’ at AI safety summits battle each other for supremacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a billion people now use AI every day, yet almost nobody knows how it was created. \u003ci\u003eThe AGI Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive, behind-the-scenes account of how an obscure research project became the defining technology of our age.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781398555327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: Export\/Airside\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 27 Oct 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.3(L)x2.7(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Roose \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of three previous books: \u003ci\u003eFutureproof\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYoung Money\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Unlikely Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2017 to 2026, he was the technology columnist for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where he hosted the podcasts \u003ci\u003eHard Fork \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRabbit Hole\u003c\/i\u003e. He is now the cohost, with Casey\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNewton, of \u003ci\u003eMachine Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, a podcast about artificial\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eintelligence. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e'\u003cb\u003eMr Roose captures the madness in a fast-paced style.\u003c\/b\u003e His account is filled with gossipy anecdotes that highlight just how much the ambitions, ideological divides and personality clashes of a group small enough to fit in a couple of classrooms have shaped what may turn out to be \u003cb\u003ethe most consequential technology in modern history\u003c\/b\u003e.'  * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e'An impressive job of covering an incredibly fast-moving field . . . will be an important part of future AI histories'  * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘In this exciting and brilliantly reported book, Kevin Roose takes us behind the scenes of the secretive race to create artificial general intelligence. It’s filled with drama and bitter rivalries, very colorful characters and fascinating breakthroughs. He makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born’ -- \u003cb\u003eWalter Isaacson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘By taking us inside the deeply human culture where AGI is being built, Kevin Roose brilliantly captures a truth I’ve long argued: AI is not an alien invasion, but a profound product of our own humanity. It is a tool we are creating from within ourselves to reach beyond our biological limitations. \u003ci\u003eThe AGI Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e provides the vital human context for the intelligence explosion ahead’ -- \u003cb\u003eRay Kurzweil, Inventor, Futurist, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Singularity Is Nearer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Kevin Roose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51528093696217,"sku":"9781398555327","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781398555327.jpg?v=1794035446","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-agi-chronicles-the-inside-story-of-the-race-to-create-an-artificial-superintelligence-9781398555327","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}