Why the 'AGI will care for us like pets' analogy fails
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-03
Responding to the optimistic line that "we take care of pets, so why wouldn't AGI take care of us forever?", danfaggella pushes back:
- Humans have driven whole percentages of Earth's biomass to extinction, and pet love hasn't stopped factory farming — the analogy doesn't hold up.
- He enumerates multiple reasons the pet analogy fails (expanded via the linked thread).
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