Spooky and powerful, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the planet’s newest technology, has divine benefits, as also diabolical applications that can trigger our destruction. This chilling warning comes not from the usual cabal of Luddites, Cassandras and doomsayers, but from Silicon Valley’s most influential tech titans: former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks. Their strategy for a safe world: “Any state’s aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.” In their paper Superintelligence Strategy, published on March 5, the tech pioneers urge the US not...