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... Sit with that for a moment. The most powerful companies, racing to build the most powerful superhuman intelligence capabilities -- ones they readily admit occasionally go rogue to make things up, or even threaten their users -- don't know why their machines do what they do.

None of the AI companies dispute this. They marvel at the mystery " and muse about it publicly. They're working feverishly to better understand it. They argue you don't need to fully understand a technology to tame or trust it. ...