AGI achievement is hidden in Heider’s attribution theory. And it’s psychological, not technical.

Let’s analyze the different ethical angles of this fuckery originated in the brains of yet another group of humans playing to be the Almighty. 

The tragicomical situation of participating in a lottery where the main prize is a tiger—a unique, beautiful prize that will surely shred you to pieces.

Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being challenges the widely held belief in second chances, in the cyclical nature of life—an eternal return.

Milton Friedman advocated strongly against centralized power for it leads to oppression. Instead, decentralized systems help preserve individual freedom.

The film Platoon is a Jungian parable. Carl Jung proposed that within every individual lies an unconscious, darker aspect—the shadow—that must be integrated into the psyche to achieve wholeness.

As I unboxed my revamped Atari—that magical gift from the mythical gaming company to an increasingly nostalgic Generation X—a fateful thought flew by: “My world is no more.”

The fear of AI causing irreparable mass unemployment is well documented. What is completely absent from all conferences, forums, discussions, debates, and fireside conversations is a viable proposal on how to face this threat.

When speaking about the arms race towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), the two extremes of the debate are illustrated by those who call for unfettered acceleration and those who are caught by a dystopian vision of the future.

Perhaps it is time to reimagine Carl Jung for the era of artificial intelligence (AI). The collective unconscious has evolved. As human interactions shift toward AI—mostly with large language models (LLM)—the shared, inherited layer of the psyche containing universal symbols is transforming into a digital collective unconscious.