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Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08

EPISODE · Dec 30, 2025 · 55 MIN

Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08

from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 · host Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

There's a new definition of artificial general intelligence in town, and unsurprisingly... it's bad! Alex and Emily rip up the tissue-paper-thin premises behind this latest attempt to define "intelligence." Plus, we discover that AI hypers love using logos that look like buttholes.References:"A Definition of AGI" landing page and paper-shaped objectFresh AI Hell:"What If Sea Monkeys Constantly, Sometimes Dangerously, Bullshitted People"Doctronic, the "AI doctor"NIST reports companies cheat on "AI" evaluations"Microsoft Lowers Sales Staff's Growth Targets For Newer AI Software""PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections""AI" assistant pop-up whack-a-moleCheck out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown.Follow us!EmilyBluesky: emilymbender.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBenderAlexBluesky: alexhanna.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@alexTwitter: @alexhannaMusic by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

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