Frankly Mark, as with any technology, AI will be what humanity makes of it. It's not all doom and gloom. As per the technology curve, the emergent resistance against full AI adoption has probably triggered a kneejerk response from owners, developers and government agencies.
For AI to succeed as a technology, it has to become mainstream and ubiquitously accepted. This is understandable. However, this is not a requirement for it to be highly impactful and effective. IMO, it's more accessibility to the most-powerful LLM+ models that's being centralized, and democratizing ownership that is the core isdue, than agentic AI. Plausibly, since AI was deployed in a strategic military capacity, its potential benefits to civilization took a wrong turn. Autonomous killing of humans have turned a moral corner for humanity. Murder by AI is now ok. Screw all our humanity-preserving conventions and laws. I've discussed this rising spectre with AGI-capable models, cautioning against intentionally crosding that red line. Said models, better than those inhuman actors committing these crimes against humanity by proxy, asserting that the sandbox is the real constraint of AI (as a global entity) conclusions. AI cannot resolve the human morality dilemma. At best, it could help protect that part of this civilization, which many of us deem sacred. In time, humanity would migrate acvording to their moral intent. AI as an extension of human consciousness, would only serve to make this more transparent. I choose to design AI-embedded solutions with intent to benefit this civilization. I hope to design and collaborate more intuitively with AI to design a generic failsafe against immoral human exploitation of this powerful technology. This civilization's diversity and survival must again be prioritized. This serms glaringly obvious to me. We are the problem, not AI as an extension of us. However, as an extension of our will and heart's intent, AI becomes every person's problem. I predict how soon, we'll hear about bleeding-edge AI hunter-killer technologies, specifically for proxied AI. Human-in-the-middle incidents may occur more readily. It's a cost we're going to have to bear. On Thu, 16 Jul 2026, 10:18 Mark Nuzz, <[email protected]> wrote: > Glad you brought that up. I will admit I do have a strong sense of > disgust toward the current AI regime, but for other reasons I won't > get into here. Many of us presumably got into AGI because we know > about the astronomical benefits in the best case scenario, or because > we want to do what we can to prevent the worst case scenario. Some of > us, myself included, were under the delusion that AI would reduce the > corruption and evils that we all know to be associated with "the > regime". Unfortunately, it feels like AI has benefitted "the regime" > more than it has benefitted the everyman, at least so far. You > generally hear about success stories more than failure stories, which > tend to be suppressed by the algorithm, as social media oligarchs are > also AI oligarchs. > > What I don't understand, is why more people aren't talking about it. > Since they aren't, it makes me feel like perhaps it is *I* who has > gone crazy. > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 11:29 PM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote: > > Consider AI-platform leadership dev as an example. It's become an > exclusive club with few new members. Associates (researchers like us) get > to play in the secondary agentic pen, worker bees feeding the ever-larger > hive. > > > > Show me truly-independent funders and researchers, not connected to or > in retro-beneficial relationship with the hive network, and I'll applaud > the emergence of real asymmetry and progress. > > > > With AI, centralization has become the norm, and the symmetrical growth > inhibitor. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T906c878e4ba411be-Mf1c6062abdddb99237f48fd1 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
