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.