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The Gilded Cage: How the Quest for Artificial Intelligence (AGI) Became the Greatest Deception in Human History
By Simba Mudonzvo (Author and founder of TechOnion)
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We all felt the thrill of November 2022. We were the first to taste the forbidden fruit of AI efficiency. But now, don’t you feel it? That growing cognitive dissonance? That gnawing feeling that the ‘AGI’ quest is a grand deception?
“The Gilded Cage” is the validation you’ve been waiting for. It argues we are not Luddites smashing the loom; we are questioning the weaver’s design for the fabric of society. This book is a warning flare from inside the industry, confirming your deepest fears. You are not crazy. You are awake.
The quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the greatest deception in human history.
This is the explosive, central argument of The Gilded Cage. Tech insider Simba Mudonzvo dismantles the myths, hype, and venture-capital-fueled fever dream of AGI. He argues the public fixation on a “conscious” machine is a brilliant distraction—a magic trick to obscure the real, profitable product being built: a new, inescapable system of human dependency.
The danger isn’t that AI will “wake up.” The danger is that we are falling asleep.
In 95 searing theses, Mudonzvo reveals how we are being seduced into trading our autonomy for convenience , our critical thinking for effortless answers , and our agency for the comfort of the “pod”. This is not an anti-technology polemic; it’s a profound critique of the “weaver’s design for the fabric of society”.
Mudonzvo argues that the final monopoly will not be on oil or data, but on the “means of cognition itself”.
This book is a necessary, urgent, and rigorously argued warning. It exposes the true misalignment—not between man and machine, but between corporate incentives and human dignity. The Gilded Cage is the definitive intellectual self-defense manual for anyone who loves technology but refuses to become its ghost.
