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AGI

A Year Ago I Told You AGI Was Hype. Superintelligence Is Further Off Than Sold, and It Will Not End Us.

September 26, 2026 by Basil Puglisi Leave a Comment

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The machine is never the one who answers for what it does.

A September 2025 essay argued that AGI talk is usually about money and not reality. This September, Andrew Ng, Timnit Gebru, and Emily Bender reached the same point about responsibility from opposite sides of the AI debate. The piece separates real capability from the claims stacked on it, argues that superintelligence is further off than sold and will not end us, and moves from a human chain of responsibility to a real checkpoint.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Thought Leadership, Basil's Blog #AIa, Business, Thought Leadership Tagged With: AGI, AGI hype, AI accountability, AI extinction risk, AI Governance, Andrew Ng, artificial general intelligence, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Economic Override Pattern, Emily Bender, liability sponge, OpenAI Hugging Face incident, superintelligence, Timnit Gebru, Yann LeCun

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