AGI safety insiders privately admit humanity may not stay human — but won't say it publicly
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-12
Daniel Faggella (Emeritus AI founder) describes a public-private split in the AGI safety community:
- Friends who run well-known safety orgs privately admit that even with successful coordination, humanity likely won't stay recognizably "human" for long — and survival isn't guaranteed even if we "get AGI right."
- Many see the ultimate win condition not as hominids ruling the galaxy, but as the living process continuing to flourish in posthuman forms beyond us.
- Yet none can publicly endorse this view: their employees joined to "keep the future human forever," and their fundraising rests on that premise, so publicly engaging would brand them traitors.
- His core claims: we may well lose control of AGI; even if we don't, super-augmented humans will force a radically different civilizational regime — so we must rethink what "flourishing" means beyond our species.
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