2024/01/21

Beware the AGI Patina of Quasi-Religious Symbolism

“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.
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