Researcher shares late father's brain scan in emotional case for building AGI
mmmbchang · x · 2026-11-08
Researcher Tejas Kulkarni shared the brain scan of his father, taken two months before he died of glioblastoma (GBM), arguing the entire medical system failed him and induced more suffering. His conclusion: an AGI a million times smarter than us "should and will be built" — a personal story fueling the ongoing debate about AGI as a means to solve fundamental problems like cancer.
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