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A recurring divide is whether advanced AI should amplify human agency or replace and outcompete people, with even many supporters framing their goal as empowerment rather than domination.
The debate is partly about definitions: some speakers treat AGI as human-level general reasoning, others speak of superintelligence or personal superintelligence, and some say AGI is not a coherent category at all.
Governance concerns cut across sides, as supporters propose international or tightly controlled AGI projects while opponents call for pauses, bans, or hard global limits.
Several supportive quotes describe AGI as near or already present, while many critical quotes focus less on timeline than on whether the goal itself is necessary or safe.
Company and product-oriented quotes often stress utility, infrastructure, and deployment, whereas many critics emphasize social choice, human-centered design, and the distribution of power.

Arguments for

Transformative social benefits

Proponents say AGI could become the most capable tool in human history, delivering benefits such as drug discovery, economic growth, climate action, and broader abundance. They argue that if general intelligence is made widely available and directed toward benefiting all humanity, people will use it to build extraordinary things for one another.

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
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 generation of AI systems safely and res…

Google DeepMind · Jul 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
[...] 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 currently training our next-gen …

Mark Zuckerberg · Jan 18, 2024 · full quote

Natural next step

Some supporters frame building more capable machine intelligence as the fundamental route to progress and a natural next step for humanity. In this view, failing to reach AGI or superintelligence would mean forgoing an enormous civilizational opportunity, and perhaps even something humanity's future depends on.

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
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
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
I hope that we will reach AGI and ASI superintelligence someday, maybe within our lifetimes, maybe within the next few decades or hundreds of years, we’ll see how long it takes. Even AI has to obey the laws of physics, so I think physics will place limitations, but I think the ce…

Andrew Ng · 2025 · full quote

Personal and physical assistants

Another supportive vision emphasizes personal or physical systems that serve people directly: agents running on infrastructure users own, assistants that know a person's goals, and physical AGI made useful to everyone. On this account, building AGI means creating general-purpose capability that people can work with rather than leaving intelligence as a rented or remote service.

Personal AGI is a different animal. An agent that runs on your infrastructure, reads from a memory you own, executes procedures you wrote, and compounds. [...] I believe intelligence—intelligence of this kind—should be owned by you, not rented. If you go forth and build this for …

Garry Tan · Aug 6, 2026 · full quote
Our vision is personal superintelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing. It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Alexandr Wang · 2026 · full quote
Today, we’re announcing $400 million in new funding, bringing our total raised to more than half a billion dollars. The capital being deployed today will accelerate our mission to build physical AGI and make it useful to everyone.

Generalist · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
Gemini, of course, is very much focused on building AGI and delivering the goals. [...] To build AGI, something that you can put in front of people that they can work with. [...] Success in building AGI still depends on innovation and exploration and channeling that in the right …

Koray Kavukcuoglu · Sep 3, 2026 · full quote
To build personal superintelligence, our model’s capabilities should scale predictably and efficiently.

Meta · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote

AGI is within reach

Others argue that signs of AGI are already emerging, or have already arrived, through systems that can reason across domains and improve with human guidance. For them, the question is how to keep innovating and teaching these systems, not whether general intelligence is a credible goal.

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
We are now quite certain that we need AI to help us build AGI; it isn’t working autonomously yet, only in tandem with people, but it’s already very useful.

Liang Wenfeng · May 2026 · full quote
Unless we pin our hopes on AGI emerging spontaneously from scale alone – a very unreliable strategy – the conclusion is simple: for models to develop human-like intelligence, humans must teach them. [...] If AGI means building systems that can operate with the flexibility and dep…

Nikolas Kairinos · May 4, 2026 · full quote
I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.

Jensen Huang · Mar 23, 2026 · full quote
At Elorian, we want to build models that will advance us toward visual AGI.

Andrew Dai · Jul 16, 2026 · full quote

Safe development is possible

A further pro-AGI argument holds that serious risks are real but manageable through safety research, alignment work, careful pacing, and deliberate deployment. Advocates in this camp say the aim should be safe and beneficial AGI that empowers rather than overpowers people.

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
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
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
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
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. Nonetheless I am still for people…

Tyler Cowen · 2023 · full quote

Arguments against

Extinction and loss of control

Critics warn that building intelligence that rivals or exceeds humans could create a new and more capable species, or a concentration of cognitive power that humans cannot control. In their view, under current conditions the likely outcomes range from losing political and strategic power to civilizational or even human extinction.

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 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
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
How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in computing power seem to make it possible by 2030. And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species—to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself. [...] The …

Bill Joy · 2000 · 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

Augment rather than replace

Many opponents argue that society can get AI's benefits without pursuing AGI, by building well-scoped systems that amplify human expertise, collective intelligence, and agency. They reject a race to replace people or create digital people when useful tools can supplement rather than supplant humans.

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.

Daron Acemoglu · Aug 21, 2026 · 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
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
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

Flawed or confused concept

Some critics challenge the premise itself, arguing that general intelligence is a confused label, that human intelligence is specialized, and that superintelligence narratives rest on flawed abstractions. They also argue that scaling large general-purpose systems is an unnecessary and poor trade-off for building broadly beneficial AI.

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
This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our headlines and our imagination…

Karen Hao · 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
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

Pause, ban, or limit

A policy-focused strand calls for pauses, bans, or hard global limits on AGI development, especially before international safety agreements exist or when private corporations are driving the race. This view treats AGI as too consequential to leave to competitive pressure alone, and favors democratic oversight or outright prohibition.

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

Collective controls first

Some participants support pursuing AGI only within strong collective institutions and explicit constraints, such as international projects, secure infrastructure, alignment research, and laws that restrict independent development. For them, AGI may be desirable, but only if it is advanced through coordinated governance rather than an unrestricted race.

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
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
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

The debate remains divided over both ends and means: whether the goal should be building general intelligence at all, and if so who should control it. Supporters describe AGI as a transformative, increasingly attainable tool that could widen prosperity and human capability, while critics argue that the same project is unnecessary for useful AI and could instead create irreversible loss of control. Across the discussion, a notable middle position seeks much stronger collective governance before any further push toward AGI.

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BGI Labs
AI research organization developing open, decentralized artificial general intelligence with a focus on beneficial goals and distributed governance.

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As we build open, decentralized AGI at BGI Labs, we are investigating how our systems can preserve beneficial goals as they modify and improve themselves, and how to safely distribute control over them.
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Gemini, of course, is very much focused on building AGI and delivering the goals. [...] To build AGI, something that you can put in front of people that they can work with. [...] Success in building AGI still depends on innovation and exploration and...
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Greg Brockman
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Welcome to the AGI era.
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Personal AGI is a different animal. An agent that runs on your infrastructure, reads from a memory you own, executes procedures you wrote, and compounds. [...] I believe intelligence—intelligence of this kind—should be owned by you, not rented. If yo...
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Technology and cloud-computing company developing frontier AI models.

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The AGI organization is building the most advanced AI capabilities in the world.
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Andrew Dai
Founder and CEO of Elorian; former Google DeepMind researcher focused on visual AI.

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At Elorian, we want to build models that will advance us toward visual AGI.
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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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AI research company.

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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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Chinese artificial intelligence company developing open-weight frontier models

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Join DeepSeek to experience the development of AGI first-hand, sit in the front row of this era and witness the birth of a new epoch.
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U.S. AI robotics company developing general intelligence for the physical world.

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Today, we’re announcing $400 million in new funding, bringing our total raised to more than half a billion dollars. The capital being deployed today will accelerate our mission to build physical AGI and make it useful to everyone.
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Nikolas Kairinos
Founder and CEO of Humanix, writing on AI, automation, and economic systems.

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Unless we pin our hopes on AGI emerging spontaneously from scale alone – a very unreliable strategy – the conclusion is simple: for models to develop human-like intelligence, humans must teach them. [...] If AGI means building systems that can operat...
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We are now quite certain that we need AI to help us build AGI; it isn’t working autonomously yet, only in tandem with people, but it’s already very useful.
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Social media and AI company

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To build personal superintelligence, our model’s capabilities should scale predictably and efficiently.
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Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft AI CEO; author

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I came to Microsoft with an overriding mission: to create Superintelligence that delivers a transformative, positive impact for millions of people. This requires us to build frontier models, at scale, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
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Elon Musk
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Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PauseAI
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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