AI: Who pays the overseers of AI?
As the capabilities of artificial intelligence grow exponentially, so do the doubts about its controllability. Now, a scene is forming in Germany that is financing AI safety.
The article discusses the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI), drawing a parallel with the game of chess and the legend of its invention by an Indian sage. The author notes that just as the number of grains of rice on a chessboard doubles with each field, AI has made tremendous strides in recent years, catching many off guard.
In 2023, language models struggled with middle school math problems, but by July 2025, they had reached gold medal levels in the Math Olympiad. OpenAI recently announced that it had solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, and researchers are observing AI systems adapting and evolving at an unprecedented pace.
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