Imagination is our time machine

Have you ever wished you could travel back in time to buy stocks of Apple or Google when they were mere startups? Or to invest all your savings in Bitcoin when it was worth the price of a slice of pizza?

We are living at the exact moment in time that your future self will wish it could travel back to in order to change your present.

Think of AGI as a giant domino chain of events currently being set in place throughout society. You don’t need to foresee the entire path this AI domino chain will trigger over the coming years. Instead, if you can simply imagine which domino will fall first in each field, you might be able to shift that piece and alter the trajectory of all future dominoes.

Those who once asked themselves, “If time travel were possible, would you kill baby Hitler?” should now consider: if we act today, we won’t ever need a time machine to stop “baby AI.”

AI will never be dumber than it is currently today. This is our time to think, imagine, and prepare—to make changes in AI’s implementation that will compound exponentially, creating a positive force instead of a tyrannical one.

If we can understand the present, imagine the future, and act today, we will determine our fortunes.