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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.
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.
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.