"Challenge the premise before optimizing for the goal Hao argued that the AI industry's core goal — building systems that duplicate and replace human intelligence — is itself rarely questioned, even by its critics: 'We've just taken the premise of this industry as a good thing. Like they said that we should be building AGI, so we say that we should be building AGI.' She pointed out that technology has historically existed 'to improve human flourishing, not to replace people,' and that different AI goals — like accelerating drug discovery — would require entirely different approaches. Before pouring energy into executing a strategy, first ask whether the strategy's underlying goal is worth pursuing at all. Source: Karen Hao, The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett, Empire of AI"