“It is widely believed that AGI has the potential to be a wonderful tool that humans can use to meet our needs, solve our problems, and improve our lives.” 

However, in “Why AGI could not be (just) a tool: Goals, Life and General Intelligence", William Hasselberger, professor at the Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Micah Lott, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Boston College, “argue that any entity with truly general, human-level intelligence would have the capacity to lead its own life, with its own purposes and integrated hierarchy of goals.”

“And thus any true AGI could not be merely a tool, even if it turned out to be extremely helpful for human beings. If we are correct, there is a dilemma at the heart of the ambition to build AGI as a valuable tool.”

In the most recent publication, the researchers and co-chairs of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, discuss the dilemma on genuine AGI, and whether it can more than a simple tool.

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