{"product_id":"the-agi-chronicles-the-inside-story-of-the-race-to-create-an-artificial-superintelligence-kevin-roose-hardcover","title":"The Agi Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence -- Kevin Roose, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born.\" --Walter Isaacson, author of \u003ci\u003eElon Musk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the story of the twenty-first century's Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial general intelligence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the last decade, a handful of AI companies have been racing to build the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence, or 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKevin Roose's \u003ci\u003eThe AGI Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the trillion-dollar sprint to create AGI. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, as well as unpublished company documents and research memos, Roose reconstructs the most consequential decade in tech history. 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 gives us the inside story of 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith reportorial rigor and page-turning suspense, \u003ci\u003eThe AGI Chronicles \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the true story of the most high-stakes technological quest in human history--an audacious attempt to create a new, alien form of intelligence that could either save humanity or destroy it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Roose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374618759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Roose\u003c\/b\u003e is 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where he hosted the podcasts \u003ci\u003eHard Fork\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRabbit Hole\u003c\/i\u003e. He is now the co-host, with Casey Newton, of \u003ci\u003eMachine Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, a podcast about artificial intelligence. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Roose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67490197242084,"sku":"9780374618759","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780374618759.jpg?v=1791359354","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-agi-chronicles-the-inside-story-of-the-race-to-create-an-artificial-superintelligence-kevin-roose-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}