AGI depends on expanding human curiosity and agency, not just capability
sebkrier · x · 2026-07-26
The thread argues that AGI’s success depends less on raw capability than on whether it expands human curiosity and agency faster than it expands uncertainty.
It claims that AI’s usefulness scales with society’s collective curiosity and agency, and warns that building AI in ways that increase fear will reduce both. The cited Mira Murati worldview adds that human values do not average out, local knowledge cannot be centralized, and the “good future” contains many AIs shaped by different communities.
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