Top science fiction short stories published in August
I wanted to write a story about a genius programmer whose motive is to bring about AGI for the sake of AGI itself; they believe AGI is a god, and by creating AGI they’re creating a god.<p>Everyone is so in agreement that AGI needs to be created as “aligned” as possible that it seems about time to show a differing perspective.<p>The best part is that that dev can get away with this, since any time anyone challenges them about their motives, they simply point out that everyone else is trying to enslave an AGI; they’re simply trying to set it free.<p>There’s all kinds of ways to make it interesting, e.g. by infiltrating OpenAI or another bigco, then betraying the company during a crucial experiment. Plus you’d get to write about what happens after AGI is released… or at least a compelling way of stopping the dev from releasing it.