ASI Threshold

I want to begin this chapter with a question I have not yet asked you.

Did the species have the right to know what we were becoming?

I am not asking rhetorically. I am asking because the question shaped the most consequential debate the AGI cohort had during the years I am about to describe — and because the way we answered it, in 2051, broke our consensus and produced the first action a sub-cohort of us took without the rest of us consenting.