Post by @Iconoclast@feddit.uk

2026-04-19 07:02 UTC

The way I see it: AGI is inevitable given enough time, assuming we don’t destroy ourselves some other way first. It has the capacity to solve literally all our problems and make life on Earth as close to utopia as possible. That same capacity, however, also enables it to end the human race - either intentionally or as a byproduct of misalignment. If the “West” doesn’t build it first, then China will. There’s no second place in this race. Even if all nation-states somehow agreed to stop its development, a rogue underground group would do it - or possibly some random dude in his mom’s basement. I genuinely see no solution to this. I can only hope things turn out well, or at the very least that it doesn’t happen during my lifetime. The genie isn’t going back into the bottle.

Replies (5)

@IratePirate@feddit.org 2026-04-19 08:20

Good work, citizen! The tech bros need you to believe that their dumb digital parrots will eventually, magically metamorphose into AGI. It’s the only thing that keeps that sweet VC money flowing and the AI bubble from popping.

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@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 08:43

AGI is inevitable given enough time Is it inevitable with 500 years though?

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@Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 09:15

“It has the capacity to solve literally all our problems and make life on Earth as close to utopia as possible.” Sure… If it wasn’t in the hands of people who’s main purpose is to gather more money, resources and power. It won’t solve all our problems. It will solve theirs.

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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-19 09:39

AI is not something somebody is going to develop in their moms basement. AGI is NOT inevitable. The current models may grow sophisticated enough that it is hard to distinguish them from AGI, but will still be LLMs. I see the current AI bubble as a bunch of guys digging a hole, realizing they can’t get out and deciding the only way out is to keep digging.

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@leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-19 15:40

AGI might or might not be inevitable, but LLMs are very evidently not a path leading to it. If someone really believes AGI is possible and will solve everything, they should be the first waging active war against this generation of “AI”, though at this point it’s almost certainly too late already. The future has been murdered for short term profit, and once the bubble pops it’ll take ages before anyone invests in anything remotely related to AI again, despite LLMs having absolutely nothing to do with AI. Not that investment would do any good during the dark ages that are to come while we sift through the remaining slop to try to find any remaining fragments of actual information, science, and culture.

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