Such an advance, leaders agree, would fundamentally transform society. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has repeatedly described AI as “the most profound technology humanity is working on.” Demis Hassabis, who leads Google’s AI research lab Google DeepMind,

AI, as an immortal intelligence, does not experience death, fear, or existential urgency. This raises profound questions: How does AI regulate itself?

By Ravichandran Venkataraman In 1945, as the first atomic bomb detonated in the deserts of New Mexico, Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.