Quantum AGI: Ontological Foundations
This work addresses foundational issues for researchers in quantum computing and AGI, but it is incremental as it builds on existing quantum theories without presenting new empirical results.
The paper tackles the problem of implementing artificial general intelligence (AGI) in quantum settings by examining how quantum foundations like Bell's theorems and the no-cloning theorem affect AGI, showing that quantum mechanics can provide computational advantages and impose new constraints on AGI capabilities.
We examine the implications of quantum foundations for AGI, focusing on how seminal results such as Bell's theorems (non-locality), the Kochen-Specker theorem (contextuality) and no-cloning theorem problematise practical implementation of AGI in quantum settings. We introduce a novel information-theoretic taxonomy distinguishing between classical AGI and quantum AGI and show how quantum mechanics affects fundamental features of agency. We show how quantum ontology may change AGI capabilities, both via affording computational advantages and via imposing novel constraints.