Essay Proposes Hybrid Human-AI Civilization Beyond the AGI Framework

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A new essay challenges the view that artificial general intelligence is just a step toward superintelligence, arguing that the field is missing key dimensions. The author introduces the idea of Artificial General Experience, which adds time, context, and memory to the assessment of AI. The piece contrasts human cognition, shaped by evolution and biological homeostasis, with the mathematical and computational basis of AI systems. Rather than comparing the two by their internal mechanisms, it urges focus on how they can functionally complement each other. The author concludes that AI's trajectory points toward a hybrid cognitive civilization, where the central challenges are making thought systems interoperable and protecting human cognitive sovereignty.

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