Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? ^57.8%

The Guardian - By Eduardo Porter - 5/31/2026, 1:00 PM

Negativity Bias 38% - Hasty Generalization 26% - Biased Writer Voice 24.6%

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 his best case scenario, the “merge” between humans and artificial intelligence occurs at some point over the next 50 years. The alternative, where we remain simply... more