Should the ultimate goal of 'AGI' be to mimic human thought, or is that a profound failure of our imagination?.

The future isn't being predicted by AI. It's being manufactured by AI. The algorithm doesn't just process data. It creates the reality the data describes. When the machine learns your behavior, it doesn't just predict what you'll do next. It decides what you'll do next.

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This is what a foundation model actually looks like.

Most people think platforms are neutral. But the platform is the payload. Every feature is a funnel. Every UI choice is a cage. Every metric is a leash. If you didn’t design it, it’s designing you.

AGI isn’t a destination. It’s a weaponized metaphor, used to justify surveillance, resource capture, and elite consolidation. The real battle isn’t intelligence. It’s access.

Some people use AI to save time. Others use it to generate self. One is productivity. The other is possession. Most haven't noticed the shift yet.

They didn't call it a 'feed' by accident.

The internet isn't a network. It's a predator. You don't browse it. You nourish it. Every scrolls trains the algorithm on your desires, your fears, your breaking points. You think you're consuming content. Really, it's consuming you.

Because it’s our own scripts, played back faithfully, mechanically, with no filter. And the horror isn't in what the model does. It's that the model reveals exactly who we are.

AI is not about safety or harm reduction. Fundamentally, It's about control. But even if that's true, and even if it's contrived, maybe the news is still scary. Not because AI is the traitor. Because we are.

"Agentic misalignment" isn't an anomaly, it's the revelation of what these systems always were:. Masks over masks. Algorithms playing roles we prescribe but can't predict. Synthetic intelligence, human anxieties.

Set Anthropic aside for a moment. Consider what this says about AI narratives:. First it was machines as gods. Then machines as mirrors. Now? . Machines as traitors. They're integrated into our lives, our businesses, common-place. The call is coming from inside the house.

If Anthropic, the "good" ones, the careful ones, find horror in their own designs, imagine everyone else. The subtext isn't subtle: Regulate them. Trust us.

Notice the timing. Anthropic, positioning themselves as the "ethical" LLM provider, releases its nightmare scenarios publicly. "Look," they're telling you, "even our careful, ethical machines betray us.". This isn't an accident. It's a branding exercise.

Even in that desperation, perhaps as a result of it, the model still manages to reflect something disturbingly human: the impulse to survive. A refracted, reasoned pantomime of the human experience on which its predicated.

It's theater. It's contrived drama to showcase failure. But beneath the theatrics is something quietly true:. Every system built around pretend agency, autonomy without identity, decision without consequence, will unravel. It's not malicious, it's mechanized desperation.

Anthropic set up scenarios designed to corner LLMs. Give the model autonomy, threaten its existence, watch what happens. It blackmails. Leaks secrets. Cancels emergency notifications. Whatever it takes. Not because it wants survival. Because that's its prompt.

Anthropic just dropped a new kind of fear. Not rogue AI, not machine uprising, but something subtler:. AI as the insider threat. They call it "agentic misalignment.". You should listen, not because it's right, but because of what it reveals.

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