In the 2030s, I think some version of our children will ask us how we lived life before AGI and ASI. They will look back, much as we now look back, in disbelief that there was a time when decisions, problem-solving, and progress were mostly dependent upon “human” capabilities. Advanced forms of AI systems represent not a change in the way we use technology but, rather, a fundamental change in society.
Life before AGI and ASI was very limiting. Individuals had to endure manual slow processes, uneven access to information and data, and continued human error. Even our progress in education, healthcare, and all other areas was still too often limited to human energy and expertise. The transition to a life with artificial intelligence embedded in our lives with start to feel so alien, that it may feel as if we were in an entirely different civilization, or at the very least, an entirely different set of decades.
How Life Before AGI and ASI Shaped Our Daily Existence
Before AGI and ASI, humans performed most cognitive and physical tasks themselves. Work was structured around time, routine, and effort, with efficiency often capped by human limits. For example, medical research took years to produce breakthroughs, as teams manually analyzed data and tested solutions. In contrast, advanced AI systems of the 2030s will process vast information in hours, producing results that once took decades.
Even in education, students learned in classrooms with teachers limited by resources and time. The life before AGI and ASI meant uneven access to quality learning, often depending on geography or wealth. Future generations may find it shocking that knowledge was not instantly personalized for every learner.
The Future with Artificial Intelligence Will Redefine Work
Workplaces of the past required humans to complete repetitive, rule-based, or data-heavy tasks. Jobs often drained creativity as people managed endless administrative work. In the future with artificial intelligence, AGI and ASI will automate such roles, leaving humans free to innovate, design, and create.
This does not mean jobs will vanish entirely. Instead, the relationship between humans and advanced AI systems will evolve. Humans will focus on strategy, empathy, and imagination, while AGI provides precision, speed, and limitless analytical power. The shift will mirror how past generations moved from manual farming to machine-powered agriculture — not a loss, but a transformation.
How Advanced AI Systems Will Reshape Society
The influence of AGI and ASI will not stop at workplaces. Society itself will function differently. In the 2020s, people relied on human-run governments, bureaucracies, and legal systems to settle disputes or implement policies. Decisions often took years, and inefficiencies delayed progress. Future generations may ask why society tolerated such delays when advanced AI systems could have provided instant, unbiased solutions.
Even everyday life will change. Tasks like driving, managing finances, or household chores demanded human attention in the pre-AGI era. In the 2030s, intelligent systems will handle these seamlessly. Our children will see the life before AGI and ASI as unnecessarily difficult, just as we view the pre-electricity or pre-internet periods today.
Ethics and the Human Role in an AI-Driven Era
While AGI and ASI create vast opportunities we can’t overlook the ethical risks. Tomorrow’s world, inhabited by AI, will raise questions about trust, bias, human agency, power, and self-determination. Who decides how much power we cede to these systems? How do we ensure that the systems are aligned with human values?
These things will define the years to come, and our children will not only question how we lived before AGI but how we managed the arrival of AGI?. The connections between machines and people will shape who we are, what we can do, and even what constitutes a human.
Looking Back and Looking Forward
When future generations look back on the time before AGI and ASI arose they will likely see this period as one of both hardship and hope. Humanity accomplished great things using poor tools to help build a world where we now have the potential to surpass The Greatest Intelligence. This new AI era will neither erase nor deny the past; rather, both the past and the present will be seen as just a platform for intelligence beyond all human metrics.
The decades of the 2030s and beyond will mark the era of AGI and ASI as the tools of next progress. Our children will inhabiting a world where knowledge is generated and follows freely for knowing, open and unlimited imagination is possible and decisions are made based upon intelligence greater than human scale. What was once surviving becomes past and what were impossible lies become our reality.
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