# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, False Value

> “An AGI?” I asked, because at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation it was important to make a distinction between Artificial General Intelligence and ordinary AI. AGI being the sort that was self-aware enough to pass the Turing test and ask difficult philosophical questions before going “Daisy-Daisy” and trying to wipe out humanity, while ordinary AI mainly tried to sell you books on Amazon.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [False Value](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value.md)
- Page: 78
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/an-agi-i-asked

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> Miss Karmargi who’d been my Religious Education teacher at school. An avowed atheist who’d once said that she respected all religions equally—“which is more than can be said for most religions,” she’d added.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/miss-karmargi-whod.md)

> After that I was up and ready for action. It might have been a Saturday, but below the rank of chief inspector weekends are an entirely notional concept.

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/after-that-i-was.md)

> There were a couple of mentions of drones, but the assumption was that they were operated by the police, the gangs, space lizards or all three at once. The media were continuing their comforting lack of interest in things that didn’t fit their various agendas.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/there-were-a-couple.md)