Comment by Ben Matthews (ben-matthews) on What exactly did that great AI future involve again? · 2024-01-28T21:10:24.024Z · LW · GW

Human potential is the big one for me.

Personally, I feel that my imagination is limited - not just around the capabilities of AGI, but in common work scenarios.

There are lots of people out there who are a lot smarter than me, but AGI can help me realise more of my human potential.

This applies both at a personal level, but eventually at a societal level and at a species level beyond that.

What this looks like and how it is made safe through safeguards, I don’t know. But I’m interested in how AGI can help us achieve our human potential in ways that I as an individual can’t imagine without the help of AGI / the sum of human knowledge.