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In just the past three weeks, three of the men who would be king of the A.I. revolution—Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk—have moved to take their companies public at valuations so stratospheric that they’re less likely to make Croesus blush than to suffer a myocardial infarction. So it’s no surprise that the voluminous and typically breathless coverage of A.I. has lately tended to focus on those dudes: their aims and aspirations, peccadilloes and foibles, and whether any of them can be trusted with developing a technology that, ahem, just might kill us all.
