The following account is reconstructed from documents I obtained in 2022 from a former employee of Prometheus Research Group, a machine-learning laboratory incorporated in Delaware in 2017 and dissolved, per state filings, on 11 March 2021.¹ The documents include internal correspondence, experiment logs, and the partial output of the system designated PR-9.
It appears we are "already here", and we don't and won't know it...
"why are you reading this now??"
Why indeed