The funniest, most bizarre, and just plain weird moments from Kevin Roose's new book about OpenAI and Anthropic

AI is the inescapable story. In "AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence," tech journalist and podcaster Kevin Roose recounts how the breakthroughs and beefs of a band of researchers, academics, and entrepreneurs have set the stage for the future of … well, everything. The book's title comes from Artificial General Intelligence, the at-times loosely defined theory that AI may one day match or surpass humans across a wide range of capabilities. While Roose ultimately concludes that no technology can equal the human brain, he writes that AI systems now boast capabilities that vastly surpass those of their predecessors, leaving society "barreling, inexorably, toward an uncertain future." Here are the funniest, most bizarre, and just plain weird moments from the book.