@inproceedings{blili-hamelin_stop_2025,
 abstract = {The AI research community plays a vital role in shaping the scientific, engineering, and societal goals of AI research. In this position paper, we argue that focusing on the highly contested topic of `artificial general intelligence' (`AGI') undermines our ability to choose effective goals. We identify six key traps -- obstacles to productive goal setting -- that are aggravated by AGI discourse: Illusion of Consensus, Supercharging Bad Science, Presuming Value-Neutrality, Goal Lottery, Generality Debt, and Normalized Exclusion. To avoid these traps, we argue that the AI research community needs to (1) prioritize specificity in engineering and societal goals, (2) center pluralism about multiple worthwhile approaches to multiple valuable goals, and (3) foster innovation through greater inclusion of disciplines and communities. Therefore, the AI research community needs to stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research.},
 author = {Blili-Hamelin, Borhane and Graziul, Christopher and Hancox-Li, Leif and Hazan, Hananel and El-Mhamdi, El-Mahdi and Ghosh, Avijit and Heller, Katherine and Metcalf, Jacob and Murai, Fabricio and Salvaggio, Eryk and Smart, Andrew and Snider, Todd and Tighanimine, Mariame and Ringer, Talia and Mitchell, Margaret and Dori-Hacohen, Shiri},
 booktitle = {ICML (Position Paper Track; to appear)},
 doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.03689},
 file = {Preprint PDF:/Users/fmurai/Zotero/storage/54MFNPHI/Blili-Hamelin et al. - 2025 - Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research.pdf:application/pdf;Snapshot:/Users/fmurai/Zotero/storage/BMW9QV78/2502.html:text/html},
 keywords = {Computer Science - Computers and Society},
 month = {May},
 note = {arXiv:2502.03689 [cs]},
 title = {Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research},
 url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689},
 urldate = {2025-06-06},
 year = {2025}
}