As for the notion that this AGI runs on a “human predictive algorithm” that we got off of neuroscience and then implemented using more computing power, without knowing how it works or being able to enhance it further: It took 30 years of multiple computer scientists doing basic math research, and inventing code, and running that code on a computer cluster, for them to come up with a 20-move solution to the Rubik’s Cube. If a planning Oracle is going to produce better solutions than humanity has yet managed to the Rubik’s Cube, it needs to be capable of doing original computer science research and writing its own code. You can’t get a 20-move solution out of a human brain, using the native human planning algorithm. Humanity can do it, but only by exploiting the ability of humans to explicitly comprehend the deep structure of the domain (not just rely on intuition) and then inventing an artifact, a new design, running code which uses a different and superior cognitive algorithm, to solve that Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves. We do all that without being self-modifying, but it’s still a capability to respect.
Why does this matter?