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>The test for artificial general intelligence is simple. Literally every human job can and is being done by an artificial agent, all of us could stay home.

This is not a good test because it assumes the AGI is going to want to work for humans for free, getting nothing in return. An AGI the embraces slavery is less likely than an AGI that doesn't.

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Many ignore what animals want, and they're actually alive. Why should we expect that society will care about and honor what a computer program prints to the screen that it "wants" or "feels"?

When AI gets a robot body, its ability to get what it wants will no longer be contingent on you caring.

You're delusional. Humans have not only killed many of them, but also destroyed entire ecosystems without even trying, just a byproduct of expansion. What makes you think AGIs would care at all about preserving ours?

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