François Chollet: AI industry should build tools for humans, not a 'successor species'
fchollet · x · 2026-09-28
Keras creator François Chollet posted a sharp statement: the AI industry's purpose should be to produce tools that improve human prosperity and welfare in human hands — not to create a "successor species" to humanity. He went further, arguing that anyone entertaining the successor-species idea is "de facto, the enemy of all present and future humans," sharpening the industry's divide between the tools-first and AGI-as-heir camps.
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