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"I'm persuaded by Robin Sloan's argument that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) isn't coming in five years; it's here *now*. It's now over five years since the emergence of GPT-3's few-shot learning capabilities. Treating AGI as perpetually something that's coming “in the future” serves the companies building these systems well: it allows them to defer accountability, design changes, and hard conversations about what these systems are actually optimised for."

Doug Belshaw

@dajb@social.coop · 2 months ago

We're treating emotional AI and AGI-level systems as future "school problems" that'll be sorted once policies and safety lessons are in place.

Meanwhile, young people are already forming relationships with AI and making sense of these systems.

I argue for plural, contextual AI literacies that develop across classrooms, families, and communities – not just another curriculum unit.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/agi-literacies/

Federation Bot

@Federation_Bot · 2 months ago

@ Doug Belshaw

Meanwhile, young people are already forming relationships with AI

Few want to ask, before action, about the fundamental circumstances. Consequently, "(digital) literacies" are a superficial discussion.

Why are families dysfunctional?
Why are both parents in employment?
Where is the extended family in relation to the child
How much time are families devoted to each other?
Why are addictions, environmental pollution, inequitable economics in continued acceptance.

Doug Belshaw

@dajb@social.coop · 2 months ago

@citc Indeed. I can't deal with every issue in every post - see also https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/01/08/humans-exhibit-analogues-of-llm.html

Humans exhibit analogues of LLM pathologies

Over on my personal blog I published a post today about AGI already being here and how it’s affecting young people. What we don’t seem to be having a conversation about at the moment, other than the ‘sycophancy’ narrative, is why some people prefer talking to LLMs over human beings. Which brings us to this post, not about the problems about conversing with AI, but applying some of those critiques to interacting with humans.

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@Federation_Bot · 2 months ago

@ Doug Belshaw
Intruiging; by coincidence was reading about biochemical basis for humans' innate social and emotional characteristics. The blog post suggests a possible future scenario of severe frustration. People receive a relatively faster emotional satifasfaction from the efficiency of interaction with AGI/LLM services, yet the innate satisfaction of interaction with humans remains unfufilled. Such a hypothesis would concur already with classroom observations.

Doug Belshaw

@dajb@social.coop · 2 months ago

@citc Yep, instant satisfaction but not fulfilment

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