Researcher renames lab 'post-AGI Personal Robotics Lab', pulls ICRA papers over world-ending risk joke
siddhss5 · x · 2026-09-17
A robotics lab lead renamed his Personal Robotics Lab the "post-AGI Personal Robotics Lab" and joked that he withdrew a couple of ICRA submissions because they had "a 10% chance of destroying the world." A tongue-in-cheek take on embodied-AI risk discourse.
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