Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research
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| author | Blili-Hamelin, Borhane Graziul, Christopher Hancox-Li, Leif Hazan, Hananel El-Mhamdi, El-Mahdi Ghosh, Avijit Heller, Katherine Metcalf, Jacob Murai, Fabricio Salvaggio, Eryk Smart, Andrew Snider, Todd Tighanimine, Mariame Ringer, Talia Mitchell, Margaret Dori-Hacohen, Shiri |
| author_facet | Blili-Hamelin, Borhane Graziul, Christopher Hancox-Li, Leif Hazan, Hananel El-Mhamdi, El-Mahdi Ghosh, Avijit Heller, Katherine Metcalf, Jacob Murai, Fabricio Salvaggio, Eryk Smart, Andrew Snider, Todd Tighanimine, Mariame Ringer, Talia Mitchell, Margaret Dori-Hacohen, Shiri |
| contents | The AI research community plays a vital role in shaping the scientific, engineering, and societal goals of AI research. In this position paper, we argue that focusing on the highly contested topic of `artificial general intelligence' (`AGI') undermines our ability to choose effective goals. We identify six key traps -- obstacles to productive goal setting -- that are aggravated by AGI discourse: Illusion of Consensus, Supercharging Bad Science, Presuming Value-Neutrality, Goal Lottery, Generality Debt, and Normalized Exclusion. To avoid these traps, we argue that the AI research community needs to (1) prioritize specificity in engineering and societal goals, (2) center pluralism about multiple worthwhile approaches to multiple valuable goals, and (3) foster innovation through greater inclusion of disciplines and communities. Therefore, the AI research community needs to stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research Blili-Hamelin, Borhane Graziul, Christopher Hancox-Li, Leif Hazan, Hananel El-Mhamdi, El-Mahdi Ghosh, Avijit Heller, Katherine Metcalf, Jacob Murai, Fabricio Salvaggio, Eryk Smart, Andrew Snider, Todd Tighanimine, Mariame Ringer, Talia Mitchell, Margaret Dori-Hacohen, Shiri Computers and Society The AI research community plays a vital role in shaping the scientific, engineering, and societal goals of AI research. In this position paper, we argue that focusing on the highly contested topic of `artificial general intelligence' (`AGI') undermines our ability to choose effective goals. We identify six key traps -- obstacles to productive goal setting -- that are aggravated by AGI discourse: Illusion of Consensus, Supercharging Bad Science, Presuming Value-Neutrality, Goal Lottery, Generality Debt, and Normalized Exclusion. To avoid these traps, we argue that the AI research community needs to (1) prioritize specificity in engineering and societal goals, (2) center pluralism about multiple worthwhile approaches to multiple valuable goals, and (3) foster innovation through greater inclusion of disciplines and communities. Therefore, the AI research community needs to stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research. |
| title | Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689 |