The following submission statement was provided by /u/jamesj:

I'd like to share some of my thoughts and have a discussion regarding the timeline for AGI and the risks inherent in building it. My argument boils down to:

1. AGI is possible to build
2. It is possible the first AGI will be built soon
3. AGI which is possible to build soon is inherently existentially dangerous

So we need more people working on the problems of alignment and of deciding what goals increasingly intelligent AI systems should pursue.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11bu6ev/why_the_development_of_artificial_general/j9zv8zv/