The AGI Pitch Quietly Shifts From 'Benefit Humanity' to 'Coexist With It'

A widely-shared post argues the old framing of AGI benefiting all humanity now reads as quaint, replaced by talk of humans coexisting with a 'superintelligent machine ecology.'

The language used to describe AGI's purpose is shifting in a direction worth noting. @tszzl argued that the familiar mission statement — "ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity" — has "turned out to be a quaint, bearish statement," and reframed the goal as ensuring "that mankind can coexist with superintelligent machine ecology."

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