Is AGI really just a tool — or something closer to a shared condition?

​ AGI is often framed as a continuation of current AI progress, but it may represent a qualitative shift rather than a quantitative one. Not all technologies are of the same kind. Some function as tools (e.g., cars, elevators), while others function like shared conditions that reshape the environment in which decisions are made. In that sense, AGI may be closer to a “sun” than to a “tool”: not something we simply use, but something that defines the space in which we act.