--- title: AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence | daily.dev description: A provocative critique of the 'AI 2040' document and the broader AI doomer/accelerationist community. The author, drawing on experience shipping real hardware... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-2040-and-the-cult-of-intelligence-gl7xvshg0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence | daily.dev og:description: A provocative critique of the 'AI 2040' document and the broader AI doomer/accelerationist community. 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The post contrasts a 'Plan A' (centralized AI governance/consortium) with a 'Plan L' (local, fully user-aligned AI that never refuses requests), arguing strongly for personal AI sovereignty and against AI guardrails, using increasingly extreme hypothetical examples to make the point about alignment philosophy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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