The book

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The AGI ChroniclesThe Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

By Kevin Roose

The decade-long race to build AGI, drawing on over 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind.

From the book’s description“This is the story of the twenty-first century's Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial general intelligence.” Source

The book at Porchlight

Title: The AGI ChroniclesThe Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
Author: Kevin Roose
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Oct 6, 2026
Kind: ReportingJournalists on the companies and people building AI.
Where to find it: The book at Porchlight ↗

What a reviewer said

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“The best single explainer of how artificial intelligence came about, and what might happen next.”

Kirkus Reviews, Jul 20, 2026

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