A giant glowing brain suspended above rows of servers in a vast data centre, wrapped in streams of data.

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Who will control the most powerful mind on Earth?

A superintelligence would be the most valuable and dangerous thing ever built. Whether it ends up in the hands of a few companies, a few governments, or no one at all may be the defining political question of the century.

  • Governance
  • Safety
A man in a high-rise office works at a glass desk alongside a holographic AI assistant and floating data panels.

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What happens to work after superintelligence?

Every wave of automation so far has destroyed jobs and created more. Superintelligence could be the first to break that pattern. A look at the history, the evidence so far, and the questions that will decide who benefits.

  • Economics
  • Consequences
Scientists in a laboratory look up at a glowing holographic figure surrounded by screens on medicine, materials and climate.

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What a superintelligence could do for science

AlphaFold solved in a few years a problem biologists had worked on for half a century. It offers a glimpse of what a much more general intelligence might do to medicine, materials and discovery itself.

  • Science
  • Consequences