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Billy Perrigo
Perrigo is a correspondent at TIME, based in the London bureau. He covers the tech industry, focusing on the companies reshaping our world in strange and unexpected ways. His investigation ‘Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop’ was a finalist for the 2022 Orwell Prize.
Exclusive: At a summit attended by staff from OpenAI and DeepMind, the economic risks posed by AI came into focus.
Governments and tech giants are racing to build AI smarter than humans. Experts warn that the first to reach artificial general intelligence could reshape global power—and the consequences of a misstep could be catastrophic.
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