SF's post-AGI visions: even the "optimistic" ones look dystopian
paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-12
Ruxandra Teslo (retweeted by paulnovosad) publishes a long-read on post-AGI futures imagined in San Francisco. Arguing we're on the cusp of recursive self-improvement and the singularity, she surveys what the people building the technology actually envision: the worst scenarios mean most of us die, but even the ostensibly positive visions offer little reassurance. She dissects "handoverism" — handing control of the future to an AGI God with humans outside the loop — and finds it dystopian too.
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