“Be very wary of profit-driven corporations using the AGI patina of mysticism to market centralized tech always ultimately developed in service of growth.”
– Signal Foundation president and AI Now Institute co-founder
Meredith Whittaker, on Meta
joining the race for artificial
general intelligence (
AGI). “AGI is a marketing term overlaid with quasi-religious symbolism,” Whittaker warns, reminding her followers that the term AI, too, was coined in 1956 to attract grant money.
