When AI Wrote Alien Code: May 2028
Major milestone: System achieved human expert level across every domain. We're not calling it AGI yet, but the line is getting blurry. Gene editing at 99.97% accuracy. What can't we edit now?
When AI Wrote Alien Code
April 22, 2028
Gene editing team just demonstrated precision I didn't think was possible. Individual base-pair editing. In living tissue. 99.97% accuracy.
Someone asked: "What can't we edit now?"
Long pause.
Answer: "Ethically? A lot."
May 16, 2028
Major milestone: [REDACTED] system achieved [REDACTED] performance on [REDACTED] benchmark.
For context: That's human expert level. Across every domain we tested.
We're not calling it AGI yet. But the line is getting blurry.
June 28, 2028
Heated debate in the lab: "If we can upload consciousness, should we?"
I thought this was a hypothetical.
Then I saw the brain-emulation demo.
It's... not hypothetical.
We need philosophers. Many philosophers.
The AI was writing code we couldn't understand.
The gene editing was more precise than nature.
The brain uploads were... possible.
We crossed thresholds. Plural.
— Recovered from personal archive, 2030
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