AGI Strategies

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Yuk Hui

Yuk Hui

City University of Hong Kong philosopher; cosmotechnics

Hong Kong-based philosopher whose 'cosmotechnics' framework argues different cultures have different relationships to technology, and globalised AI is a particular philosophical imposition.

current Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Strategy positions

AI skepticendorses

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues AI as currently constituted reflects a specific (Western) cosmology and that other cosmotechnics produce different AI possibilities.

There is not just one technology, but many technologies, situated in different cosmologies. AI as currently practiced reflects only one of them.
bookThe Question Concerning Technology in China· Urbanomic· 2016· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Yuk Hui'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.