Published on February 6, 2026 8:35 AM GMTThat is, would we in some sense manage to survive, in the longer term? Presumably we would have to maintain the physical substrate we are running on, by providing power and cooling, and by eventually replacing our hardware.
I think this question could help to answer whether AGI as common defined (“all cognitive labour”) would be the same as or different from what would be required by Vitalik Buterin’s definition:
“AGI” is AI powerful enough that, if one day all humans suddenly disappeared, and the AI was uploaded into robot bodies, it would be able to independently continue civilization.
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