The AGI Chronicles
The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
$50.99
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
‘Exciting and brilliantly reported’ Walter Isaacson
This is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the trillion-dollar sprint to create artificial general intelligence.
For 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398555310 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398555312 |
| Author: | Kevin Roose |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘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’ – Walter Isaacson
‘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. The AGI Chronicles provides the vital human context for the intelligence explosion ahead’ – Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Futurist, Author of The Singularity Is Nearer
Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of three previous books: Futureproof, YoungMoney, and The Unlikely Disciple. From 2017 to 2026, he was the technology columnist for the New York Times, where he hosted the podcasts Hard Fork and Rabbit Hole. He is now the cohost, with Casey Newton, of Machine Gods, a podcast about artificial intelligence. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.
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