Averting existential risk from AGI is daunting, and leaving this challenge to private companies is a dangerous gamble.

On 16th July 1945 the world changed forever. The Manhattan Project’s ‘Trinity’ test, directed by Robert Oppenheimer, endowed humanity for the first time with the ability to wipe itself out: an atomic bomb had been successfully detonated 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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