I’m calling it now; artificial general intelligence (AGI) is never going to happen. That doesn’t mean AI won’t one day appear to be intelligent (honestly, most humans aren’t generally intelligent themselves), nor does it mean AI won’t do incredible things, but a computer will never be able to “think” or move through the world with consciousness like humans.

The biggest hurdle preventing AGI is that we don’t even know what consciousness is; that is to say, we don’t actually know what makes us *us*. But don’t tell that to the AI evangelists; they don’t want to hear it.

For the camp of people who believe AI will soon undergo an intelligence explosion and bring a new post-scarcity era free of disease and even death, they see things a bit differently. So differently in fact, they’ve decided to “avoid dangerous activities” because they don’t want to miss out on “living in a utopia.”

If you think AGI is likely in the next two decades, you should avoid dangerous activities like extreme sports, taking hard drugs, or riding a motorcycle. Those activities are not worth it if doing them meaningfully decreases your chances of living in a utopia.

— Nikola Jurkovic (@nikolaj2030) November 4, 2025

Nikola Jurkovic, an AI researcher with METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research), a nonprofit focused on studying the capabilities of AI, says taking any risk whatsoever is a big no-no. In a post on X, Jurkovic warns his fellow believers that they should “avoid dangerous activities like extreme sports, taking hard drugs, or riding a motorcycle,” as these activities “meaningfully decrease [sic] your chances” of being part of the AI singularity.

What a sad way to live.