AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering

Reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao , I was struck by how people associated with OpenAI believe in AGI. They really do think someone, perhaps them, will build AGI, and that it will lead to either the flourishing or destruction of humanity. Elon Musk founded OpenAI because he thought Demis Hassabis was an evil genius who would build AGI first: &hellip;Musk would regularly characterise Hassabis as a…