Everyone keeps asking when AGI will arrive. I think the scarier question is what happens when intelligence becomes cheaper than labor. For centuries, human civilization was built on one assumption: smart people are rare. Now we are actively engineering a world where cognition can be replicated infinitely. That changes everything. Jobs. Power. Education. Creativity. Even the meaning of being “valuable.” A lot of people frame AGI as either salvation or extinction. I think both sides are oversimplifying it. The biggest risk is not AI suddenly becoming evil like a sci-fi movie. The real risk is concentration of power. If a handful of corporations control superintelligent systems, they won’t just dominate markets. They will shape culture, politics, information, and eventually human behavior itself. That’s why I’ve become more interested in crypto and decentralized infrastructure recently. In a world shaped by AGI, decentralization stops being a niche ideology. It becomes a defense mechanism. Open models, verifiable systems, and permissionless networks may become the only counterweight against centralized intelligence monopolies. This is why conversations started by @GenLayer and @RallyOnChain actually matter. Not because AGI is “cool.” But because humanity is entering a phase where technological acceleration is moving faster than social adaptation. Personally, I’m still optimistic. Not naive. Not blindly bullish. Just aware that humans historically evolve fastest during periods of chaos. The internet rewired communication. Crypto challenged trust. AGI will challenge the meaning of intelligence itself. And honestly? I don’t think society is psychologically prepared for what comes next. The real question is: If AGI arrives this decade, who should control it? Governments? Corporations? Open networks? Or no one at all? Curious where people here actually stand.