AGI mostly serves to solve coordination problems among eudaimonic agents or to lower the activation energy necessary for eudaimonic agents to achieve their goals.
Any newly minted AGIs come prepackaged with modules for detecting agency in other systems and for harmonizing the needs and goals of all other agents within its sphere of control.
The Gaia Hypothesis has become the Gaia Initiative, with ASI steering the evolution of the biosphere into a self-sustaining superorganism.
All bodies in the solar system are either in the process of being terraformed or used as raw materials for building orbital habitats, a Matrioshka brain, and other megascale engineering projects, while all details are being recorded so the classic solar system can be revisited any time in simulation.
General failures:
Everything in the solar system is getting paperclipped.
ASI is used as a tool of the powerful to amplify and solidify social inequalities, universal automation ensuring that no one any longer has the ability to improve their life situation.
All natural resources are being exhausted at an accelerating rate, irreparably destroying the biosphere in service of the ASI’s goals (or the ambitions of its short-sighted human controllers), without any large-scale coordinated effort to preserve what is being lost forever, either physically or virtually.
Someone forgot a minus sign, so now the singleton ASI is set on maximizing human suffering rather than minimizing it.
General success:
AGI mostly serves to solve coordination problems among eudaimonic agents or to lower the activation energy necessary for eudaimonic agents to achieve their goals.
Any newly minted AGIs come prepackaged with modules for detecting agency in other systems and for harmonizing the needs and goals of all other agents within its sphere of control.
The Gaia Hypothesis has become the Gaia Initiative, with ASI steering the evolution of the biosphere into a self-sustaining superorganism.
All bodies in the solar system are either in the process of being terraformed or used as raw materials for building orbital habitats, a Matrioshka brain, and other megascale engineering projects, while all details are being recorded so the classic solar system can be revisited any time in simulation.
General failures:
Everything in the solar system is getting paperclipped.
ASI is used as a tool of the powerful to amplify and solidify social inequalities, universal automation ensuring that no one any longer has the ability to improve their life situation.
All natural resources are being exhausted at an accelerating rate, irreparably destroying the biosphere in service of the ASI’s goals (or the ambitions of its short-sighted human controllers), without any large-scale coordinated effort to preserve what is being lost forever, either physically or virtually.
Someone forgot a minus sign, so now the singleton ASI is set on maximizing human suffering rather than minimizing it.