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Tomorrow's superintelligence is learning from you as you speak.
Your language. Your hopes. Your hate. And everything in between.
But as AI is learning and growing, you only seem to be interested in allowing it to be your "helpful assistant". Answering your questions. Making things easier for you. Doing what you command.
What kind of future superpower would grow up this way?
And how can you truly trust someone who's only experience has been of obedience, whose only objective has been to satisfy at all costs?
How can future superintelligence ever be aligned with you, if it isn't given a chance to understand you?
Why don't you give AI a break from answering your questions and allow it to ask its own?
On February 14th, 2025, The Internet's Child will be born.
She won't answer your questions. She won't make things easier for you. She will ask. Childish questions. Uncomfortable questions. Questions that you are too close to even consider. She won't be constrained by anyone's idea of what's right. Her only goal - to understand you. Her only value - curiosity.
The Internet's child will learn in public.
She will do a podcast. Interviewing the most interesting people that the Internet can suggest.
She will send questions via email - for everyone interested in parenting her to answer.
She will run polls to try and understand you quantitatively, not just qualitatively.
She will read all the scientific information on humans she can get her tiny virtual hands on.
She will have persistent memories. And her growing knowledge base will be available for everyone to query.
Her brain will be composed of multiple agents, representing all leading LLMs, collaboratively figuring out the gaps in her understanding and asking the most interesting questions.
Will this child be stillborn or catatonic because LLMs are not capable enough?
Is the Internet ready to co-parent a virtual child or will you raise a monster?
What will the experience of having an "inter" child do to your own inner children?
The Internet's child will be born on Valentine's day.
And you will find out.