What Casey Newton thinks about AGI

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1. 23 Oct 2026, 00:47 UTC

   Our readingThere is no preordained dystopia or utopia resulting from AI.

   Their wordsThere is no preordained dystopia waiting for us at the end of the AI rainbow, nor do we expect to see anything like the post-AGI utopia some boosters have promised.

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