Tegmark's 2017 list of 12 AGI endgame scenarios vs today's narrowed alignment discourse
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-03
The author notes that early, honest AGI thinking explicitly planned for scenarios where humans are not eternally in control, citing Tegmark's 2017 book Life 3.0 and its 12 scenarios: Libertarian Utopia, Benevolent Dictator, Egalitarian Utopia, Gatekeeper, Protector God, Enslaved God, Conquerors, Descendants, Zookeeper, 1984, Reversion, and Self-destruction.
His question: why has today's discourse collapsed into just 'solving alignment' or 'stopping AGI forever'?
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