Per OpenAI's charter, AGI means making humans economically unnecessary — enough to justify pacing
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-19
VivaLaPanda argues that regardless of one's doom takes, per OpenAI's own charter the point of AGI is to make humans economically unnecessary — and that fact alone justifies pacing, if we believe we're approaching AGI as defined there. The argument grounds the slowdown debate in the letter of the charter: if AGI's definition entails economic substitution, alignment and pacing become logical necessities rather than options.
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