Your owl looks cute and not scary. Framing AGI's as cute seems to go against the point.
Aha, that answers my question. I didn't realize that Bostrom's owl represented superintelligence, so I chose mine to be more like a reader stand-in.
If the owl is supposed to look scary and wrong, reminiscent of Langford's basilisk, then I agree that the original owl does the job okay. Though that didn't stop someone on Tumblr from being asked "why are you reading an adult coloring book?", which was the original impetus for me.
Is it possible to find an image that will look scary and wrong, but won't look badly drawn? Does anything here fit the bill?
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