machina.mondays // Playing Chicken with the Machine God
AGI—essentially human-level intelligence—is supposedly only a few years away. Do we need rules for this rogue AI intelligence now before it arrives and writes its own?
In this Issue: We’re trying to govern AGI before it exists — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Our lead story explores the paradox of preemptive regulation: act too soon and misfire, wait too long and it may be too late. In Spotlight, we break down how Google’s AI Mode could quietly dismantle the open web, shifting us from navigation to synthetic answers. Hot Take covers the legal storm around OpenAI being forced to save every chat — including deleted ones. Plus: AI-washing at Builder.ai, Meta’s new superintelligence lab, and ChatGPT joins the fine dining world.
