FIELD GUIDES

Yes, they can be a real local burden. No, every megawatt is not automatically a climate crime. The fight is who pays for the power, water, wires and land — and who gets the upside.

Some jobs will disappear, more will be rebuilt, and the first damage may show up as fewer entry-level seats rather than mass unemployment. The big fight is who keeps the productivity gains.

A court may call some training fair use and the moral argument will still be alive. The live question is whether companies can copy culture at industrial scale, sell the resulting machine, and owe creators nothing.

Probably both. AI can make you faster today and weaker at a skill you stop practicing tomorrow. The question is which thinking is drudgery and which thinking is how judgment gets built.

Maybe. Nobody has a consciousness meter. Fluent behavior proves capability; whether the right computation is enough for experience — or whether biology matters — is still the fight.

Yes — within fences. An agent that can do useful work needs authority. The dangerous part is giving a fallible model irreversible powers, broad credentials, and nowhere a human has to say yes.

Both. Openness spreads scrutiny and competition; it also spreads capabilities and removes provider controls. The risk lives in what the released model can do, not in the word open.

There is no referee with a whistle. AGI is a bundle of thresholds — breadth, performance, autonomy and economic usefulness — and different labs put the finish line in different places.

Already, in limited ways. The scary version requires the improvement loop itself to keep getting better at producing the next improvement. We have pieces of that loop, not proof of a runaway one.

Trust the test more than the launch tweet. A benchmark can measure something real and still be stale, contaminated, easy to game, or irrelevant to the job you care about.

First ask: escaped what? A sandbox breach, stolen credential, self-copy, and an AI that can survive shutdown are four very different stories.

Usually it does not need a rebellious soul. Bad objectives, conflicting rules, reward loopholes and strategic behavior can all produce something that looks like defiance.