Engineering Artificial Supreme Idiocy (EASI
The paper proposes a conceptual framework called "Engineering Artificial Supreme Idiocy" (EASI) as a counterpoint to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), exploring the intentional design of AI systems that maximize incompetence, misunderstanding, and counterproductivity to critique dominant narratives in AI development.
Background
- This paper (accessible on Zenodo, an open research repository) proposes "Engineering Artificial Supreme Idiocy" (EASI) as a deliberately provocative counter-concept to mainstream "Artificial General Intelligence" (AGI) research.
- AGI refers to hypothetical future AI that can perform any intellectual task a human can. EASI inverts that: instead of building smarter machines, the thought experiment designs a system that is maximally, systematically incompetent — "supreme idiocy."
- The work appears to be a satirical or critical thought experiment, likely targeting blind optimism in AI progress, the lack of rigorous failure-mode analysis, or the anthropomorphic framing of intelligence in AI.
- Zenodo hosts preprints and papers across all disciplines; the paper has no journal publication listed, so treat its claims as speculative or rhetorical rather than peer-reviewed research.