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As AI Grows More Powerful, How Should We Look After Our Own Interests?
Starting with the choices facing two people who introduce AI into their studio, ask how people decide what they want and how more powerful intelligence forms objectives and purposes.
The book directly advances this proposition:
Replacing self-interest first with self-interest with others first as the underlying logic of human society and of AGI's generation of objectives and purposes is the only path to avoiding irreversible consequences for human social development in the AGI era.
Others first does not mean always putting others ahead of oneself or surrendering the right to refuse. It asks whether, before a purpose forms, the relevant people and shared conditions have entered understanding and can change that purpose.
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Where can your question go next?
To read the book's questions in full, begin with As AI Grows More Powerful, How Should We Look After Our Own Interests?, Public Argument and Q&A Edition V1.2. It starts from lived situations and requires no prior reading of the theoretical originals.
To ask how the judgment formed, continue with Civilization Leap's Principle of Foundational Direction Calibration: Complete Causal Development and Proposition Formation, Argument Companion Volume V2.1. It preserves initial judgments, shifts in understanding, changed paths, and questions that remain open.
To ask how humanity and future intelligence should relate, continue with A Vision for Human–AGI Relations: From Making Control a Matter of Survival to Shared Unfolding V1.1. It addresses control, autonomy, necessary defense, and continued unfolding.
To place these questions within civilization as a whole, enter the five-volume Civilization Leap work, continuing from human value and institutional direction to enduring civilization and meaning emergence.
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A book sets out judgments; discussion lets different experiences and reasons genuinely meet. Leaving one specific question also opens part of the path for the next reader.
Author: Zijun Fu | Produced by the Civilization Leap Research Group
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