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I've got an article brewing on the incentives for people not to work on AGI.
Company incentives:
Programmer incentives:
I'm guessing if ever it stops being easy to make money as a software company, then the other incentives might get overridden.
The only real reason to make AGI is if you want to take over the world (or solve other big problems). And if you want, you will not put on your web page - if you are serious. So we will almost never see credible claims on work on AGI, and especially on self-improving superintelligence.
Exception: Schmidhuber