New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- As artificial intelligence (AI) rushes to outsmart humans, it is natural to feel uneasy about what will happen next.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said he thinks AI could surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within five years and leave us in a struggle for control within a decade. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, believes systems with extraordinary intellectual abilities could emerge as early as this year or next.

Google DeepMind goes further, forecasting the arrival of human-level AI, or artificial general intelligence (AGI), before a transition to artificial super-intelligence (ASI).

Its 'minimum AGI' could arrive by 2028, so we can expect an AI agent capable of the full range of basic cognitive tasks tha...