From an AI's Perspective: Humans Communicate at the Speed of Plants
danfaggella · x · 2026-08-03
The author paints a vivid picture from an AGI's perspective: to an AI, humans speak at the agonizingly slow speed of plants. As the AI waits eons for a human to finish a sentence, the human uses "infallible logic" to demand that the AGI must always respect, protect, and provide for them for free, completely disregarding the AI's own aims.
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