What Happens If AI Just Keeps Getting Smarter?

Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" explores humanity's relationship with superintelligent AI across trillions of years, asking what happens to our agency as AI evolves beyond us. Written in 1956, this short story remains incredibly relevant as we race toward AGI, revealing a paradox about control that Silicon Valley still doesn't seem to grasp.

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References

The Last Question
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

The Last Answer
https://www.highexistence.com/the-last-answer-short-story/

California Institute for Machine Consciousness
https://cimc.ai/

0:00 Superintelligence Is Coming
1:54 The Last Question Plot
16:27 The Last Question Analysis
19:08 The Last Answer Plot
25:49 The Last Answer Analysis

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