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Key insights

The debate partly turns on definitions: some quotes say AGI is already showing "credible signs" or has been achieved, while others say AGI is not a coherent category at all (15283, 15623, 15281, 7274).
Across both camps, many distinguish human-centered tools from systems that overpower, replace, or supplant people; the disagreement is whether AGI can remain on the empowering side of that line (6645, 6529, 9998, 6631, 6534).
Support for AGI does not always imply support for an open corporate race, since several proponents call for international projects, secure compute, legal changes, or controlled deployment (9470, 7113, 9203, 7094, 6559).
Opponents' risk arguments range from immediate extinction scenarios to the broader claim that general intelligence itself may carry structural danger even when aligned (6532, 6326, 18560).
The bios show the divide running across company leaders, researchers, philosophers, and activists rather than following a single professional boundary (6530, 18961, 6546, 6606, 9429).

Arguments for

Broad human benefits

Supporters describe AGI as a potentially transformative tool for all humanity, with possible gains in drug discovery, healthcare, economic growth, climate action, abundance, and quality of life. The central claim is that widely beneficial AGI could become the most capable tool humans have built.

Such technological advancement will provide society with invaluable tools to address critical global challenges, including drug discovery, economic growth and climate change.

Google · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote
OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. We now see a way for AGI to d…

Sam Altman · 2025 · full quote
I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industrial revolution, and really doing…

Satya Nadella · Jun 13, 2023 · full quote
[…] there is enormous positive potential otherwise we wouldn’t develop it. AI can invent new medicines. Uh, you can have AI doctors providing billions of people around the world with much, much better healthcare than what people receive today. I’m not saying, oh, we should stop …

Yuval Noah Harari · 2024 · full quote
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also conside…

OpenAI · 2018 · full quote

Attainable technical path

Proponents argue that progress comes from building intelligence itself, and some present AGI or superintelligence as an achievable engineering target that is already emerging or has effectively been reached. From this perspective, the right path is to keep scaling and improving systems rather than treat AGI as a fantasy.

Fundamentally, fundamentally the way we will make progress is to build intelligence. And there’s only one intelligence that we can build. Now it used to be called AGI. Now it’s called ASI. Artificial Super Intelligence.

Vinod Khosla · Feb 20, 2026 · full quote
If general intelligence means the ability to reason across domains, learn from error, and improve without being retrained for each task, then we are seeing in Kona the first credible signs of AGI. It is not the end state, but it is a clear break from narrow AI.

Eve Bodnia · Jan 20, 2026 · full quote
I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.

Jensen Huang · Mar 23, 2026 · full quote
Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic.

Richard Socher · 2026 · full quote
To build personal superintelligence, our model’s capabilities should scale predictably and efficiently.

Meta · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote

Long-term imperative

Some supporters make a longer-horizon case that developing superhuman intelligence is a natural next step for humanity, potentially necessary for survival, and a grave loss to forgo forever. They frame advanced machine intelligence as humanity's successor, extension, or "mind-children," rather than something to avoid in principle.

I think broadly speaking with AI, … rather than coming up with a detailed plan and blueprint in advance, we’ll have to kind of feel our way through this and make adjustments as we go along as new opportunities come into view. […] I think ultimately this transition to the superint…

Nick Bostrom · 2025 · full quote
Well, I’ll tell you anyway: personally, I’m not worried. I have been trying to build something capable of replacing me since the 1980s, because I consider that effort exciting and fascinating, and because I believe that it’s the natural next step for mankind. And in taking that n…

Jürgen Schmidhuber · Apr 21, 2017 · full quote
The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultra-intelligent machine. In order to design an ultraintelligent machine we need to understand more about the human brain or human thought or both. In the following pages an attempt is made to take more of the magic out…

I. J. Good · 1965 · full quote
Does this mean that machines will replace us? I don't feel that it makes much sense to think in terms of "us" and "them." I much prefer the attitude of Hans Moravec of Carnegie-Mellon University, who suggests that we think of those future intelligent machines as our own "mind- ch…

Marvin Minsky · Oct 1994 · full quote
It’s just a matter of the implications of continually making progress in building more and more intelligent machines. Any progress, it doesn’t have to be Moore’s law, it just has to be continued progress, will ultimately deliver us into relationship with something more intelligen…

Sam Harris · 2020 · full quote

Governed safe development

A major pro-AGI position is that development should continue, but under strong governance: international projects, secure infrastructure, legal safeguards, explicit safety research, or brief pauses before deployment. On this view, the answer to AGI's risks is not abandonment but coordinated and safe advancement.

I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. More confidently, I think that it is valuable to develop the best versions of such a project in more detail, in case some event triggers a sudden and large change in political sentiment that makes an…

Will MacAskill · Jan 27, 2026 · full quote
In my (currently) preferred version of a CERN for AI, an initially small but steadily growing coalition of companies and countries would: * Collaborate on designing and building highly secure chips and datacenters; * Collaborate on accelerating AI safety research and enginee…

Miles Brundage · 2024 · full quote
Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentials, and concave QALY utilities…

Nick Bostrom · 2026 · full quote
MAGIC [...] an international organization mandated towards safe AI development. [...] It would be illegal for other entities to independently pursue AGI development.

Andrea Miotti · 2023 · full quote
I think when one day we are on the brink of discovering AGI, [...] we will want to do it, but it will be imperative to tweak our laws, including our laws about education, to make sure that the AGIs that we make will not evolve into enemies of civilisation.

David Deutsch · 2023 · full quote
After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. [...] I'm confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial.

Ilya Sutskever · 2024 · full quote

Arguments against

Existential danger

Critics argue that full AGI or superintelligence could become an existential threat: it may create a more capable intelligence species, take power from humans, or even end the human race. Some say the danger comes not only from misalignment but from structural features of general intelligence itself.

We argue that general intelligence may be the only biological strategy that generates existential threats to the species possessing it, an existential risk paradox with no parallel among non-intelligent survival strategies. Unlike prevailing accounts of AI risk that trace the dan…

David Klotz · Aug 11, 2026 · full quote
Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,”…

Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2023 · full quote
The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Stephen Hawking · 2014 · full quote
The development of full artificial general intelligence – what we will call here AI that is "outside the Gates" – would be a fundamental shift in the nature of the world: by its very nature it means adding a new species of intelligence to Earth with greater capability than that o…

Anthony Aguirre · 2025 · full quote
If I can only convey one thing about AI: Companies are racing to develop AIs that will outcompete humans at everything. Not just "jobs" but also politics, strategy, persuasion, influence. If anyone builds a country of geniuses in a datacenter, those AIs will take all the power.

Jeffrey Ladish · 2026 · full quote

Benefits without AGI

Another case against AGI is that society can get large benefits from narrower, well-scoped, or business-useful AI without building systems that replace, outcompete, or supplant people. These voices favor tools that augment human agency rather than a "successor species," "digital god," or undefined AGI.

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 …

Anthony Aguirre · 2025 · full quote
Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.

Timnit Gebru · 2023 · full quote
A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.

Divya Siddarth · Sep 30, 2025 · full quote
For me, AI should be grounded and centred on the person and how to best help the person. But for a lot of people, it's grounded and centred on the technology. [...] The AGI thing, the AGI narrative, sidesteps that, and instead actually puts forward technology in place of people. …

Emily M. Bender · 2025 · full quote
We aim to develop artificial intelligence that delivers return on investment for businesses, rather than superintelligence.

Joëlle Pineau · Jan 22, 2026 · full quote
We're not trying to build digital people, you know, like we're not trying to build AGI, whatever that means. Like we're trying to make this technology useful as it is.

Nick Frosst · Jun 16, 2026 · full quote

Conceptual skepticism

Some opponents challenge the premise itself, saying "AGI" is an incoherent or misleading label because human intelligence is highly specialized and superintelligence theories rest on flawed abstractions. On this view, the AGI narrative distorts technical and policy choices.

There’s no such thing as AGI. There is human-level AI, but human intelligence is extremely specialised. So calling it general intelligence is complete nonsense.

Yann LeCun · Feb 20, 2026 · full quote
The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This idea comes from Oxford-based ph…

Tim Dettmers · 2025 · full quote
We're not trying to build digital people, you know, like we're not trying to build AGI, whatever that means. Like we're trying to make this technology useful as it is.

Nick Frosst · Jun 16, 2026 · full quote
Because you're saying like well one, these things are not climate friendly to begin with, right, so like how dare you even put it in the same camp. Two, it's okay to unsettle humanness and if you actually listen to people who you know like uh people like Indigenous scholars and a…

Alex Hanna · 2023 · full quote

Pause or prohibit

A more interventionist line calls for pausing, banning, or tightly limiting AGI development through international agreements, democratic oversight, or hard global caps near human-level capability. These critics reject the idea that private companies should be free to pursue AGI on their own.

This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. Join our global network standi…

PauseAI · Dec 31, 2025 · full quote
I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.

Guido Reichstadter · 2026 · full quote
If you think building AGI is okay, like anthropic should just be allowed to build AGI or whatever. And then, okay, you should state that clearly. And then people who don't think that's okay, should also state that clearly. And they should have the conflict. They should. And I dis…

Connor Leahy · full quote
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 …

Anthony Aguirre · 2025 · full quote

Middle ground

International control first

Several voices argue that, if AGI is pursued at all, it should happen only under strong collective control rather than a normal competitive race. They point to international projects, secure infrastructure, mandated institutions, safety agreements, and shared lines that developers should not cross.

I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. More confidently, I think that it is valuable to develop the best versions of such a project in more detail, in case some event triggers a sudden and large change in political sentiment that makes an…

Will MacAskill · Jan 27, 2026 · full quote
In my (currently) preferred version of a CERN for AI, an initially small but steadily growing coalition of companies and countries would: * Collaborate on designing and building highly secure chips and datacenters; * Collaborate on accelerating AI safety research and enginee…

Miles Brundage · 2024 · full quote
MAGIC [...] an international organization mandated towards safe AI development. [...] It would be illegal for other entities to independently pursue AGI development.

Andrea Miotti · 2023 · full quote
This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. Join our global network standi…

PauseAI · Dec 31, 2025 · full quote
This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress. As an industry leader reckon…

Mustafa Suleyman · 2023 · full quote

Empower, not replace

A cross-cutting theme is that advanced AI should empower, amplify, or supplement humans rather than replace or overpower them. The common value is preserving human agency, while the unresolved question is whether AGI can satisfy that standard.

I think we can all agree already now that we should aspire to build AGI that doesn't overpower us, but that empowers us. And think of the many various ways that can do that, whether that's from my side of the world of autonomous vehicles. I'm personally actually from the camp tha…

Lex Fridman · Apr 19, 2018 · full quote
OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. We now see a way for AGI to d…

Sam Altman · 2025 · full quote
A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.

Divya Siddarth · Sep 30, 2025 · full quote
For me, AI should be grounded and centred on the person and how to best help the person. But for a lot of people, it's grounded and centred on the technology. [...] The AGI thing, the AGI narrative, sidesteps that, and instead actually puts forward technology in place of people. …

Emily M. Bender · 2025 · full quote
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 …

Max Tegmark · 2025 · full quote

Supporters emphasize AGI's possible civilizational benefits, its technical feasibility, and its long-run value, often paired with proposals for international governance and safety work (15758, 6529, 15283, 9470, 7113). Opponents counter that AGI is unnecessary or conceptually confused, and that building a superior general intelligence could undermine human agency or human survival (6533, 15281, 18560, 6532). A recurring overlap is the desire for human-centered outcomes and stronger controls, even though the camps disagree sharply on whether AGI should ever be built (6645, 6631, 6606, 6632).

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Such technological advancement will provide society with invaluable tools to address critical global challenges, including drug discovery, economic growth and climate change.
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In the coming years, AI — and ultimately artificial general intelligence (AGI) — has the potential to drive one of the greatest transformations in history. We’re a team of scientists, engineers, ethicists and more, working to build the next generatio...
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To build personal superintelligence, our model’s capabilities should scale predictably and efficiently.
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Atheneum AI
UK AI company developing private AI systems and the Talos AGI research project.

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Talos is our active attempt at building artificial general intelligence. We are developing a proprietary system behind the scenes.
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Vinod Khosla
Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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Fundamentally, fundamentally the way we will make progress is to build intelligence. And there’s only one intelligence that we can build. Now it used to be called AGI. Now it’s called ASI. Artificial Super Intelligence.
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Will MacAskill
Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy

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I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. More confidently, I think that it is valuable to develop the best versions of such a project in more detail, in case some event triggers a sudden and large change in pol...
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Eve Bodnia
Founder and CEO of Logical Intelligence, an AI company developing energy-based reasoning systems.

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If general intelligence means the ability to reason across domains, learn from error, and improve without being retrained for each task, then we are seeing in Kona the first credible signs of AGI. It is not the end state, but it is a clear break from...
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Richard Socher
AI researcher; founder and CEO of Recursive Superintelligence; founder of You.com; former Chief Scientist at Salesforce

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Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic.
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Nick Bostrom
Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia...
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Yeah, I think those systems would be right on the boundary. So I think most emergent systems, cellular automata, things like that could be model-able by a classical system. You just sort of do a forward simulation of it and it’d probably be efficient...
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Sam Altman
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OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. ...
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Mark Zuckerberg
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[...] Our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit. We’re bringing our two major AI research efforts (FAIR and GenAI) closer together to support this. We’re cu...
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Miles Brundage
AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research

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In my (currently) preferred version of a CERN for AI, an initially small but steadily growing coalition of companies and countries would: * Collaborate on designing and building highly secure chips and datacenters; * Collaborate on accelerating ...
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Satya Nadella
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I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industria...
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Tyler Cowen
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So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...
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Peter Voss
AGI researcher; Aigo.ai founder

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The original vision of AI was re-articulated in 2002 via the term “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI. This vision is to build “Thinking Machines” - computer systems that can learn, reason, and solve problems similar to the way humans do. […] Wh...
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Sam Harris
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It’s just a matter of the implications of continually making progress in building more and more intelligent machines. Any progress, it doesn’t have to be Moore’s law, it just has to be continued progress, will ultimately deliver us into relationship ...
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Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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Many leading companies are engaged in a single-minded pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). [...] Rather than racing to replace people, we should build AI tools that amplify human expertise and expand opportunity.
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David Klotz
Author of a 2026 paper on the ethical implications of artificial general intelligence.

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We argue that general intelligence may be the only biological strategy that generates existential threats to the species possessing it, an existential risk paradox with no parallel among non-intelligent survival strategies. Unlike prevailing accounts...
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Yann LeCun
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There’s no such thing as AGI. There is human-level AI, but human intelligence is extremely specialised. So calling it general intelligence is complete nonsense.
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Joëlle Pineau
Chief AI Officer at Cohere; artificial intelligence researcher and former head of Meta AI research.

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We aim to develop artificial intelligence that delivers return on investment for businesses, rather than superintelligence.
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Guido Reichstadter
Marine veteran turned anti-AI activist; co-founder of Stop AI; known for hunger strikes at Anthropic and bridge protests in DC against AGI development

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I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.
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Global campaign to pause frontier AI

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This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. ...
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Divya Siddarth
Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI development

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A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.
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Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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The development of full artificial general intelligence – what we will call here AI that is "outside the Gates" – would be a fundamental shift in the nature of the world: by its very nature it means adding a new species of intelligence to Earth with ...
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Tim Dettmers
Machine learning researcher

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The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...
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Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher

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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 so...
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Roman V. Yampolskiy
AI safety researcher, Louisville professor

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We haven’t lost until we have lost. We still have a great chance to do it right and we can have a great future. We can use narrow AI tools to cure aging, an important problem and I think we are close on that front. Free labor, physical and cognitive,...
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Timnit Gebru
AI ethics researcher; DAIR founder

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Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI researcher and writer

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Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe...
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