Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at Google's developer conference last week that humanity is standing in the "foothills of the singularity" — and that society has only a few years left to prepare for AGI.
Why it matters: AI leaders have warned for years about the potential arrival of artificial general intelligence. What's changing now is the urgency with which some of them are talking about it.
The U.S. government's lead civilian cyber agency is heading into the AI era with shrinking resources and a diminished role as Washington scrambles to assemble a multi-agency response to emerging AI cyber threats.
Why it matters: Former officials and industry leaders fear the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency no longer has the capacity to help utilities, banks and other critical infrastructure operators prepare for a coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks.
A new AI startup tells Axios that proofs created by its algorithms have now been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals.
Why it matters: AI proponents have for years been saying that the technology would lead to scientific breakthroughs, and now that appears to be happening.
Pope Leo XIV is warning that the artificial intelligence race could become a new Tower of Babel — a dazzling human achievement that concentrates power, weakens truth and turns people into data points.
Why it matters: The long-awaited document, Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity"), signals that the Vatican is aggressively positioning itself as a central moral authority in the global tech debate.
We get paid to anticipate the future by recognizing fact patterns. Here's our honest read on 2028:
Several forces will converge by then — toxic political fragmentation, superintelligent AI and a platform shift bigger than social media — hitting simultaneously, not sequentially.
Why it matters: CEOs who aren't stress-testing their strategy against this collision right now might get upended by it.
