With open models like DeepSeek-R1, Llama, Qwen, etc and closed source models like o1, o3, Claude etc and even OpenAI's upcoming agentic operator.

At this point knowledge work is going to be white hot with automation in the focus this year and the next.

Can we just be real and just say we aren't advancing humanity with AI, it is just focused on automating out jobs.

OpenAI even admitted that their definition of AGI is:

"By AGI we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." (0)

I knew this for the longest time, but I still see and talk to researchers in AI companies that still believe they are furthering humanity with AI and all this optimism of the future. While I like to be optimistic about it, just tell the truth plainly that everybody hasn't actually thought about what happens when AGI comes.

The more we just admit this to ourselves the more people can be prepare for when AGI inevitably comes.

Otherwise everybody will prepare to fail.

(0) https://openai.com/index/how-should-ai-systems-behave/