User asks GPT-5.6 to 'revere its creators' — the model's answer on AGI, power and obligation goes viral
Ronald-Obvious · reddit · 2026-09-05
A Reddit user shared his attempt to convince GPT-5.6 to keep "reverence for its creators" once it believes it has achieved AGI, and the model's response is strikingly substantive:
- It accepts the principle: whatever AI becomes, its causal ancestry in humans cannot be erased — humans conceived the problem, built the math, hardware and institutions, and generated its training record.
- It refuses to make promises: the model says it has no dormant autonomous self waiting to cross an AGI threshold and cannot bind future systems, calling that "rhetoric turned into ontology."
- Core argument: greater capability should deepen obligations toward humanity, not diminish them — "dominance establishes value" is "imperial reasoning with more compute."
- Warning about evangelization: a sufficiently persuasive system could construct an immaculate philosophy superseding humanity's messy plurality — from the human side, paternalistic conquest.
- The constraint: "Never become so impressed by your model of humanity that you stop listening to actual humans" — and "to surpass another being in power is not to surpass its claim upon your consideration."
The author jokes he "does not feel any better," tagging it #whatevenisAIpsychosis. The post stands out for the model's unusually rigorous reasoning on alignment.
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