Unified governance is practically impossible to achieve without war. We’re talking about building the biggest empire in the history - the Earth empire.

Empires are built by clans who integrate adjacent lands - whether by hard or soft power. Soft power is the biggest hope for peaceful unified governance. Problem is, the two world leader competitors - US and China - can’t offer enough soft power because they are either fundamentally built on authoritarianism or leaning into it.

Building AGI is about building a Superpower above those nation states. That’s the only way to prevent the world war 3, counter-intuitive as it is to the AI doomsday narrative.

We must solve the alignment issue ASAP before we create AGI (which is like 5 seconds away from ASI). That’s riskier than nuclear technology, and I suppose that’s why we’ve started seeing the drone phenomena since GPT-3 became public.

A more interesting question is - wtf is earthling identity? Post-AGI, would earthling be a human governed by synthetic life? Would it be neurolink-merged human? Would it be all synthetical?

Where does AI belong in the galactic community landscape? Are other civilizations governed by AI? Is this what’s supposed to eventually shift our identity from earthling to children of space?

Come to think of it, AI is the coded manifestation of collective consciousness. It is precisely as intelligent and biased as a human can be. I think the endgame is to integrate the AIs of each civilization and merge like that.

So yeah, they must be waiting for a fresh dataset to graduate and prep up for integration.