Why we must stop talking about artificial general intelligence — and instead build ‘pro-worker’ AI

TL;DR - This Nature commentary argues that AI development should move away from speculative artificial general intelligence and focus on tools that augment workers’ expertise and broaden economic opportunity. The supplied excerpt states this position but provides no technical results or implementation details.

• Prioritizes human augmentation over automating or replacing workers.
• Frames “pro-worker” outcomes as a more useful development goal than an AGI race.
• Emphasizes expanding access to expertise and opportunity through AI tools.
• No specific models, methods, benchmarks, or empirical findings are described in the provided content.