Demis Hassabis thinks AGI arrives around 2030. The CEO of one of the world's leading AI labs is not waiting to find out. Google DeepMind just hired a philosopher. With that actual job title. 1/4

Who decides what AGI is allowed to do? Do machines have rights? These were academic questions. They are about to become operational decisions. 2/4

Henry Shevlin @dioscuri spent his career asking them from inside a university. Now he is being paid by the company that thinks it might build the answer first. 3/4

The timeline — and even the very concept — of AGI are contested. The decisions being made in anticipation of it are not. Full piece by @annaheim: infiniteloop.media/p/the-philosop… 4/4