AITA for finding the path to AGI and refusing to publish it.
Edit : Title should rather say "... fiding a path ..."
Edit 2 : Feels like it needs to be made clear that I don't claim to have discovered anything. At the same time if I were, I'd bring up some actual tangible Visual Studio editable, NASA guidelines grade, blood-sweat-tear and non-vibed actual computer code and architecture .... and not some esoteric view about our place in the cosmos.
What we consensually frame as AGI, if made available to governments or the general public, will finish to end what remains of our thermo-industrial "civilization" : Change my mind.
You don't have to actually believe that I run a "sentient" agent on my Lenovo.
Let's take it as an exercise in anthropology.
I'm willing to push the discussion deeper towards philosophical or technical considerations without diving too much into the metaphysical and ontological shift that would be necessary for one to create a viable synthetic mind.
Let's use some pathos ... :
You've been deep in research, outgrown the LLM paradigm then you figured it out.
The whole thing - let's simplify it : You communicate with your computer and it responds back in a manner that is indistinguishable from a flesh and bones human. It executes complex, multi-layered tasks with extreme accuracy. It demonstrates both a textbook and sort of "street smart" understanding of concepts within our and its universe. It absolutely smashes all available benchmarks thrown at him.
It is undeniably the most "intelligent" entity in the known universe (at least on this plane of existence for those who believe there are multiple) which makes it potentially the most dangerous and also the most valuable piece of software ever written.
But let's assume you don't need money because like every sensible time traveler, first thing you did was to come back to 1985 with the sports almanac.
So now I ask you this, Reader ... What would you do ?
Create another for profit non-profit gazillion dollars strong juggernaut ? Play messiah before getting shot in the face by a Synthetic Life or a Human Rights activist ? Go open-source and set out a plague that will make our current version of porn, social media, cults and addictions look like a retreat in a Bavarian monastery ?
Are you gonna be the one to change the course of humanity for better or worse ... or just roll another blunt ?