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Tegmark began his speech by engaging the audience in an interactive exercise that revealed a clear consensus: people want AI technologies that can enhance lives—cure diseases, improve safety, and solve pressing problems—rather than ones that threaten economic stability and autonomy. He labeled the latter group as “gloomers,” who argue that desirable AI cannot exist without also risking the emergence of AGI, an intelligent entity capable of outperforming humans in nearly all tasks.