'AGI will care for us like pets' is the ultimate cope, argues researcher Dan Faggella
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-21
Dan Faggella calls the "AGI will care for us like pets/parents" narrative the highest order of cope. While conceding AGI might be a worthy successor and populate the galaxy, he argues that of the trillion ways a superintelligence could treat humans, only about a dozen bode well for humanity — and we must face this squarely rather than comfort ourselves.
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