本书直面 AI 时代最诱人的许诺之一：智能可以被统一成一个单一、完美的终极状态。作者主张，「AGI 之梦」运转起来就像一座现代巴别塔——雄心宏大，结构不稳，终将自我挫败。它的崩塌不是努力或工程才华的失败，而是一种内建于「完成」神话之中的结构性失败。
本书把 AGI 之争重新框定为一个文明问题，而非纯技术路线图。当「规模化」成为进步的首要逻辑，创造就被悄悄替换成优化；当系统变得更顺滑，人的意义却常常变得更稀薄。承 SIO 本体论之脉，作者为这场危机发展出一套严谨语言，并提出两条统辖性原理——一条「扩张律」，解释为何世界会随能力增长而不断生成新问题；一条「意义递减律」，解释为何更强的工具仍会产出耗竭、内卷与「高产出、低生命」。
然而这不是一部悲观的批判。在它的第三乐章——救赎——本书引入 AEI，一条越过「终极状态幻想」的新路。这里的 E 指 Ego：人的「我」，作为分布、场与审美取向的活的中心。AEI 不是一个旨在替代人类的 AI 智能体，而是一种人—GPT 复合智能，培育「我」经由真实互动去创造意义、维持自由、更新幸福的能力。未来，作者主张，不是一台「完成了智能」的单一机器，而是一个持续重新打开创造之窗的分布式文明。融合哲学、复杂性科学与文化诊断，本书既是警示也是设计：对「完成神话」的批判、给教育者与创新者的框架、以及给一切在 AI 时代寻求清醒之人的指南针。它是「AI 时代前沿」群的诊断书。
AGI: The Babel Tower of Artificial Intelligence - Illusion · Collapse · Redemption confronts one of the AI era\'s most seductive promises: that intelligence can be unified into a single, flawless end-state. Philosopher Desheng Wang argues that the "AGI dream" functions like a modern Babel Tower-grand in ambition, unstable in structure, and ultimately self-defeating. The collapse is not a failure of effort or engineering talent; it is a structural failure built into the myth of completion. The book reframes the AGI debate as a civilizational question rather than a purely technical roadmap.
When scaling becomes the primary logic of progress, creation is quietly replaced by optimization; when systems become smoother, human meaning often becomes thinner. Drawing on SIO ontology (Subject-Interaction-Object), Wang develops a rigorous language for this crisis and proposes two governing principles-an expansion law that explains why the world keeps generating new problems as capability grows, and a diminishing-meaning law that explains why stronger tools can still produce exhaustion, involution, and "high output with low life." Yet this is not a pessimistic critique. In its third movement-Redemption-the book introduces AEI, a new path beyond the end-state fantasy. Here E means Ego: the human "I" as a living center of distribution, field, and aesthetic orientation.
AEI is not an AI agent designed to replace humans, but a human-GPT composite intelligence that cultivates the Ego\'s capacity to create meaning, sustain freedom, and renew happiness through real interaction. The future, Wang argues, is not a single machine that "finishes intelligence," but a distributed civilization that continuously reopens the windows of creation. Blending philosophy, complexity science, and cultural diagnosis, AGI: The Babel Tower of Artificial Intelligence offers both warning and design: a critique of the completion myth, a framework for educators and innovators, and a compass for anyone seeking clarity in the AI age. It is a manifesto for co-creative intelligence-and for rebuilding a future where meaning does not collapse under the weight of power.