AGI Will Act Alien: Superintelligent Minds Will Defy Human Comprehension
tszzl · x · 2026-08-07
An AI researcher points out that minds much smarter than humans will inevitably act in alien ways. When models are actively optimized on specific pressures like writing machine code or solving pure math, they will become truly strange entities, shaped by forces fundamentally different from human evolution. This could result in an entity resembling a 'superintelligent slime mold'.
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