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What Happens When AI Outsmarts Us?

What Happens When AI Outsmarts Us?

Update: 2025-09-02

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In his just-released book The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything, James Barrat warns that we could be sleepwalking into a future where machines rapidly outpace human intelligence — a time fast approaching when we’ll no longer be the ones calling the shots.

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