The public claims to be building toward AGI are on the record: Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek, Yang Zhilin of Moonshot AI, Yan Junjie of MiniMax. When we asked those AI researchers in person, what we got back was the same modest sentence, in different mouths: I want AI to replace myself. Robotics founders would say, we want robotics adoption to solve labor shortage. This is the wisdom of what not to say. In front of a group of Westerners who might write down whatever you say, the safest future to envision is your own redundancy and utility that fits the state’s vision.