David Krueger's talk blasts "managing the transition to post-AGI" framing via Martian takeover analogy
conitzer · x · 2026-10-03
- David Krueger's talk at the post-AGI workshop takes aim at the popular framing of "managing the transition" to a post-AGI world, which he says he hates. His analogy: if we were at a post-Martian takeover workshop where aliens are obviously coming to take over upon arrival, would we really be holding such a workshop?
- Vincent Conitzer responds that he makes a similar point in his essay "What Would It Look Like to Align Humans with Ants?" — the transition-management framing can obscure the core issue of humans losing primacy.
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