As a founder, know your biases: own them, acknowledge them, and refuse to be blinded by them. "Perhaps no one should be surprised that some of the world’s best scientists and engineers have defined intelligence the way they have. Even if the AGI champions’ motives were entirely altruistic, they would still be biased by their own way of seeing the world, by their own experiences and successes. Researchers at the forefront of AI are among the most brilliant and accomplished minds on Earth—and they make up a very narrow, self-selected group of people primed to understand certain kinds of knowledge better than others: explicit, well-defined, tokenizable knowledge; knowledge that forms the basis of our most far-reaching, wildly accurate theories of the universe; knowledge that has allowed us to create world-changing technologies. But that is only a small subset of all knowledge—the sliver that can be expressed symbolically, as language or mathematics."