Yudkowsky claims AI companies' core concepts like 'AGI' came downstream of his writing
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-09
Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that much of the smart-sounding talk at AI companies — 'recursive self-improvement', 'AGI' — originated with him or diffused via him and Bostrom, not from independent study. He considered a positive AGI/ASI vision in the mid-2000s but deprioritized writing it up. The reposter wonders why Yud has been gloating so much lately.
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