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Comment by Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher
I actually do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we will build AGI [artificial general intelligence] machines that can outsmart us all. Not because we can't … but rather we might just not want to.
So why are obsessing about trying to build some kind of digital god that's going to replace us, if we instead can build all these super powerful AI tools that augment us and empower us?
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Quote attributed to Max Tegmark from Davos 2025 (January 22, 2025), reported in Axios. WebFetch on axios.com source URL returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms verbatim wording: "I actually do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we will build AGI machines that can outsmart us all. Not because we can't… but rather we might just not want to" and "why are obsessing about trying to build some kind of digital god that's going to replace us, if we instead can build all these super powerful AI tools that augment us and empower us?" The Axios article title "It's not a 'foregone conclusion' that AI will outsmart humans, expert says" matches the source URL. Vote "against" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Tegmark's pro-tool-AI / anti-AGI position. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 9d ago
replying to Max Tegmark