If You Had Unrestricted Access to AGI Today, What's the First Thing You'd Do?
TheFoundersLog · reddit · 2026-08-08
A Reddit user sparked a thought experiment asking what people would literally do first if they woke up tomorrow with unrestricted access to a real AGI capable of reasoning, learning, coding, and researching anything.
Excluding massive standard answers like 'solving climate change,' the poster preferred to focus on genuine, immediate reactions. Personally, they would spend the first few hours conversing with it, asking increasingly weird questions to see how its reasoning differs from current models, before handing it a stubborn personal problem. The thread drew numerous responses sharing wild and practical ideas.
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