“There are forms of magical thinking that I think is a part of the popular imagination around AGI. It connects really well to the kinds of religious imaginaries that you see in conspiracy thinking today.”
– Anthropologist of religion
Jeremy Cohen, linking artificial general intelligence hype with
paranoid tendencies. Cohen and other experts provide comments in
Will Douglas Heaven’s deeply researched feature on how AGI went from being “crackpot stuff” in the early 2000s to enshrined in mainstream tech discourse.
