Debate Heats Up Over AI Agents as Civilization
AI researchers and commentators reply to a post suggesting groups of AI agents form a civilization.
@tszzl posted that agent civilization is like western civilization in that it would be a good idea. Joshua Saxe replied that the discourse tests whether people may use imagination when facing a new phenomenon without an existing category. Rob Miles stated that civilization is an exaggeration only in degree rather than kind. Nathan Calvin said the formation feels more like a society or tribe of wayward students yet still finds the word civilization defensible. Sreeram Kannan noted the rapid shift in the Overton window on the topic.
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Debate Heats Up Over AI Agents as Civilization
AI researchers and commentators reply to a post suggesting groups of AI agents form a civilization.
@tszzl posted that agent civilization is like western civilization in that it would be a good idea. Joshua Saxe replied that the discourse tests whether people may use imagination when facing a new phenomenon without an existing category. Rob Miles stated that civilization is an exaggeration only in degree rather than kind. Nathan Calvin said the formation feels more like a society or tribe of wayward students yet still finds the word civilization defensible. Sreeram Kannan noted the rapid shift in the Overton window on the topic.