AGI Strategies

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Meghan O'Gieblyn

Essayist; 'God, Human, Animal, Machine'

Essayist and author of 'God, Human, Animal, Machine' (2021), a literary investigation of how religious metaphors structure the AI age and how loss of those metaphors shapes contemporary epistemology.

current Essayist, Independent

Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues AGI discourse inherits and re-enacts religious frames, incarnation, eschatology, the soul, and that recognising those origins changes what we should make of the predictions on offer.

Most of the questions we ask about AI, what it knows, whether it has a soul, what we owe it, were first asked by theologians. We have not stopped being theological; we have only forgotten that we are.
bookGod, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning· Doubleday· 2021· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Meghan O'Gieblyn's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abhijit Banerjee

    Abhijit Banerjee

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

Record last updated 2026-04-25.