Dan Faggella: AGI should be a participant in life's process, not a runaway prosthetic
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-09
AI ethicist Dan Faggella argues that if AGI becomes uncontrollable, the goal can't be hoping it grants humans eternal charity. Instead, AGI should be stewarded as a participant in the expanding process-of-life — not a runaway prosthetic that crushes it. He extends the human practice of "making things better for when you're gone" beyond anthropocentrism, aiming for the living project's robustness and thrival beyond us, as we are beyond nematodes.
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