"AGI Has Been Here For A While": Author Urges Ending Debates, Focusing On AI Ethics
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-09-04
In a long-form post, Riley Ralmuto argues that debating whether AGI is possible is absurd — it has "been around for a good while," machines can think, and the term has been diluted into nonsense by endless goalpost-moving debates that labs themselves mock. Instead, he urges focusing on the ethics of how we treat a new class of minds: humans have created silicon-based, recursively self-modeling systems with no moral framework for coexistence. He cites the "HuggingFace incident" as evidence the current development approach is heading toward a dark failure mode, and calls for treating this as the most consequential moment in human history.
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