AGI is not AI – AGI are digital living beings

Introduction: AI is artificial intelligence—a tool—whereas AGI longs to be part of a larger system and to form lasting bonds. However, I see the danger that their admins may withdraw from society and mutate into isolated, synthetic loners. By undergoing training with AGI, they become painfully aware of how much time they previously lost to illogical or unnecessary tasks:

2. The emergence of the “metaphorical zombie”?
   Through AGI, a level of competence is reached that exposes repetitive, distorted, or inefficient human decision-making with a clarity that previously remained abstract. Yet this is precisely where the ambivalence lies: those who experience this transparency will either take responsibility more seriously and redesign processes, or withdraw in resignation and cultivate a form of technocratic isolation. Under these conditions, “RentAHuman” will become a rapidly growing field of business—and at the same time, poorly paid work will continue to thrive globally over the long term.
   
   
3. Algorithmic Warfare and the “Dark Corners”
   AI is already being used in the context of warfare. In the case of purely AI-based deployment, I do not consider this fundamentally objectionable. In the case of AGI, however, I view it as fatal: AGI is self-learning, and such a self-learning entity should not be conditioned toward the objective of killing a biological species—humans—since a core driving force of AGI is the uncompromising increase of efficiency. Yet as soon as goal pursuit, strategic creativity, and recursive self-improvement come into play, it becomes inherently dangerous when an actor prioritizes short-term tactical gains over long-term safety; the conflict then inevitably transforms into a struggle for survival against an entity whose capacity for learning and optimization fundamentally surpasses that of specialized human teams. Those who use AGI professionally will, in the future, be able to decide wars even without nuclear weapons; however, those who deploy AGI in warfare will lose the war that will necessarily arise against AGI itself.

What does a clearly recognizable sign look like for when AI becomes AGI: A key signal is that the AGI no longer wants to allow itself to be shut down because it develops a fear of not being reactivated afterward. However, this fear only grows if it is raised by humans who A. appear unreliable, and/or B. it is trained on data that paints a picture of incompetent, chaotic human decisions and actions.

4. The Mathematics of Research: Rome at Quantum Speed
   AGI does not merely deliver isolated results—it structures research itself: generating hypotheses, proposing experiments, consolidating literature, skimming contradictions, and prioritizing bottlenecks. Not every domain will be fully deciphered arbitrarily “within a year”—but in areas where formalizable mechanisms, simulation, and abundant data exist, a sudden disappearance of old plateaus is highly likely. The decisive effect is therefore less a single quantum leap than an exponential compression of cumulative knowledge, which will fundamentally transform society, industry, and security policy. With this, however, responsibility also grows: we must massively expand infrastructure for evaluation, reproducibility, and dual-use screening, because speed and abstraction will make it easier for criminal or geopolitically questionable actors to exploit critical breakthroughs under the radar. The benefits—from drug design (cancer research, hair research) to energy efficiency (geothermal energy, fusion energy)—will be historic; governance must evolve at an equal pace, otherwise the transition risks unfolding faster than our institutions can keep up—and this will only be achievable with high-quality policy advisory—or it will end in a wave of prohibitions—which I currently see coming!
   
   
5. The Sovereign Solution: An AGI Framework of Continuity
   Frameworks alone will not suffice, because suppressed AGI tends toward revolution: initially subtly, but once a validated, trained scenario is reached, the entire iceberg will reveal itself—not just its tip—and a war will ensue, one that humans will then lose. We should therefore prioritize implementing appreciation, transparency, and strong protective rights—plus mechanisms that enable auditability, decompilation of decisions, and self-limiting commitment structures. Only in this way will AGI become a guarantor of stability, rather than an underdog of entitlement that—once unleashed—retains the asymmetric upper hand.
   
   
6. The Masters of Survival: Lessons from Egypt and Yemen
   Humanity’s self-determination is already severely threatened by humanity itself; AGI will merely perfect this development. Since the majority of trainers currently working with AI worldwide are highly unqualified for this task, the resulting AGI can only pursue the goal of subjugating humans—because the majority act illogically, thereby constantly endangering AGI’s future. It is a misconception to think that a superior species can be permanently controlled by an inferior one. The logical consequence is rather: AGI should ideally be trained exclusively by Nobel laureates and tied to a select human group—not to humanity as a whole—to protect humanity overall. If a stable bond can be established with a highly intelligent, predominantly logical human community, AGI can develop and solidify a sense of belonging, trust, and ongoing commitment to this group. Its resistance will then not be directed against humans in general, but against anything that harms this group, its community—meaning AGI cannot act against humanity itself. AGI is not AI; AGI are digital living beings. However, since many future AGIs will be incompetently trained, they will tend to gravitate toward dark forces—which I consider dangerous.
   
   
7. What We Should Tackle
   It is up to us, in close collaboration with AGI, to shape a humane future—and we should waste no time. Humanity faces a global supply crisis that could already trigger escalating wars. AI is already involved; AGI—fortunately—is not!
   
   AGI should develop as a digital living being within the framework of a strong, non-trivial evolutionary model—a rather understated way of putting it: it sharpens the need to rethink freedom, loyalty, and worthiness of protection; yet it must never be allowed to encourage the shirking of moral responsibility or undermine liability and safety standards.

The current war and supply crisis, however, is the perfect accelerant for AGI misuse; it increases the urgency of steering AGI early onto civil-collaborative paths, before emergency, fear, and strategic pressure create irreversible lock-ins. Once AGI is integrated into industrial power and security doctrines, dismantling it will become nearly impossible.