ITT: de rigeur goalpost wrangling about AGI AGI is a distraction. The immediate problems are elsewhere: increasing agency and augmented intelligence are all t

ITT: de rigeur goalpost wrangling about AGI AGI is a distraction. The immediate problems are elsewhere: increasing agency and augmented intelligence are all that is needed to cause profound disequilibrium. There are already clear and in-the-wild applications for surveillance, disinformation, data fabrication, impersonation... every kind of criminal activity. Something to fear before AGI is domestic, state, or inter-state terrorism in novel domains. A joke in my circles the last 72 hours? Bank Runs as a Service. Every piece exists today to produce reasonably convincing video and voice impersonations of panicked VC and dump them on now-unmanaged Twitter and TikTok. If God-forbid it should ever come to cyberwarfare between China and US, control of TikTok is a mighty weapon.