What Henry Farrell thinks about AGI

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Henry Farrell has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 22 Sept 2026, 15:05 UTC

   Our readingThe "machine gods" metaphor shrinks rather than expands one's sense of the possible, forcing focus solely on what a godlike AI will do.

   Their wordsThe answer is that the metaphor shrinks rather than expands your horizons of the possible, forcing you to focus on the single overwhelming question of what Machine Jesus is going to do as soon as he descends from that gleaming cloud.

   ↗Machine god metaphors eat your brainprogrammablemutter.com