{"id":179099,"date":"2025-09-26T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179099"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:15:37","slug":"fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179099","title":{"rendered":"Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AGI \u2014 a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans can \u2014 could come within a decade. College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time on preventing it from turning on humanity. When Alice Blair enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a freshman<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/victoriafeng\/2025\/08\/06\/fear-of-super-intelligent-ai-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGI \u2014 a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out.jpg",1600,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out.jpg",1600,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179099-fear-of-agi-is-driving-harvard-and-mit-students-to-drop-out-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}