It’s a grift, “AGI will save us” is the same as Musk’s “Mars colony”, it’s not supposed to ever happen, it’s supposed to be a goal post they ever move further
It sounds like an episode of Silicon Valley it really does I get it, you can laugh, it's all right, but it is what I actually believe is going to happen”
Whether or not that’s his current view, who knows, but everyone who’s invested in OpenAI since should have known that this was at least part of his mental model.
It's not really like that, at least the fundamentals, not necessarily what Altman / Musk say.
The significant point is when AI/robots can do what we do without us and improve themselves even if humans disappear. That'll be a new era on Earth.