--- title: Chess.com CEO: AGI Will Be a Cultural Problem | daily.dev description: The Chess.com CEO argues that the risks of AGI and superintelligent AI are fundamentally cultural and economic rather than technological. He compares AI to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chess-com-ceo-agi-will-be-a-cultural-problem-p27ayuqxs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Chess.com CEO: AGI Will Be a Cultural Problem | daily.dev og:description: The Chess.com CEO argues that the risks of AGI and superintelligent AI are fundamentally cultural and economic rather than technological. He compares AI to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chess-com-ceo-agi-will-be-a-cultural-problem-p27ayuqxs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/p27AyuQxS.png og:image:alt: Chess.com CEO: AGI Will Be a Cultural Problem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Chess.com CEO: AGI Will Be a Cultural Problem **[No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups](https://daily.dev/sources/nopriorspodcast)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Chess.com CEO argues that the risks of AGI and superintelligent AI are fundamentally cultural and economic rather than technological. He compares AI to past powerful technologies like nuclear weapons and firearms, suggesting that wealth concentration among big tech and how humans choose to share the value created will determine whether AGI is used for good or ill, not the technology itself. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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