Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong ? / (…)

A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a few years ago to propose that homo sapiens would be the first species “to design our own descendants”. In (…)