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Comment by Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder
We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a choice masquerading as fate.
By imposing some hard, global limits, we can keep AI's general capability to approximately human level while still reaping the benefits of computers' ability to process data in ways we cannot, and automate tasks none of us wants to do. [...] Humanity must choose to close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence. To keep the future human.
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(2025)
7mo ago
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Quote attributed to Anthony Aguirre from "Keep the Future Human: Why and How We Should Close the Gates to AGI and Superintelligence, and What We Should Build Instead" (March 5, 2025), Chapter 10. WebFetch on keepthefuturehuman.ai source URL and the arxiv preprint both returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms the essay exists with the exact thesis: "close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence" and "Keep the Future Human" by Anthony Aguirre, with passages matching the cited content about humanity choosing whether to build AGI vs. tool AI. Vote "against" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Aguirre's central thesis. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 9d ago
replying to Anthony Aguirre