Unpopular idea, but I hope it's only a matter of time before we declare involving with AGI a criminal endeavor, just as it is playing with biological weapons.
Because we can't all be wrong: in almost every forecast, we see AGIs taking over our dignity as a bad thing. And we know that this is not any longer a sci-fi hypothetical scenario: the current generation of AI models is taking jobs from illustrators and copy writers.
The current argument is that "China will do it if we don't", which to me sounds like "China will keep going in whatever path they are going, but supercharged with AGI, and we must desperately follow."
This is a frustrating point of view to me. We have nearly every able bodied person in society spending something like 1/3rd of their life on this "dignity", but how many would define it as such? For most people it is an inversion of free will where they are subservient to others and treated as a replaceable cog in a larger and uncaring machine, spending time on something that they may very well hate or at least otherwise choose not to do. All to justify their existence and provide value to society, though for some nominally because there is a growing number of bullshit jobs where the value provided is questionable and the people going through the motions.
It does not need to be that way. In an ideal world, human beings should be free to spend their time doing what they wish, work should be purely in the realm of hobby. No one should have to do work that they would not voluntarily choose to do for enjoyment.
The only way we get there is through AI and the automation of everything. I don't even think it's avoidable -- provided civilization does not collapse, we will 100% reach a point where everything required to sustain a civilization is performed by machines.
We shouldn't let fear keep us in a status quo that, while better than it has ever been historically, is still highly flawed.
Because we can't all be wrong: in almost every forecast, we see AGIs taking over our dignity as a bad thing. And we know that this is not any longer a sci-fi hypothetical scenario: the current generation of AI models is taking jobs from illustrators and copy writers.
The current argument is that "China will do it if we don't", which to me sounds like "China will keep going in whatever path they are going, but supercharged with AGI, and we must desperately follow."