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20 guides in AGI
What people mean by AGI, why there's no agreed definition, and how it differs from today's AI systems.
AGI 2 min read 20 Jul 2025 For people
The distinctions between task-specific AI, human-level general AI and hypothetical superintelligence.
AGI 1 min read 19 Jul 2025 For people
Tests, benchmarks and practical measures proposed for recognising general intelligence in machines, and their limits.
AGI 1 min read 18 Jul 2025 For people
From the 1956 Dartmouth workshop through AI winters to large language models: how ambitions for general AI evolved.
AGI 1 min read 17 Jul 2025 For people
The debate over whether bigger models, more data and more compute will lead to general intelligence.
AGI 1 min read 16 Jul 2025 For people
A grounded look at current AI strengths and weaknesses, as context for debates about general intelligence.
AGI 1 min read 15 Jul 2025 For people
Why experts disagree so widely about when general AI might arrive, and how to read forecasts critically.
AGI 1 min read 14 Jul 2025 For people
Why making advanced AI systems reliably pursue intended goals is difficult, and why it grows more important with capability.
AGI 1 min read 13 Jul 2025 For people
The categories of risk discussed around increasingly general AI: misuse, accidents, structural harms and loss of control.
AGI 1 min read 12 Jul 2025 For people
How increasingly capable, general AI could accelerate science, medicine, education and productivity.
AGI 1 min read 11 Jul 2025 For people
How increasingly general AI could change jobs, skills and the economy, and how individuals and organisations can prepare.
AGI 1 min read 10 Jul 2025 For people
The main research areas aimed at making advanced AI safe: interpretability, evaluation, oversight and control.
AGI 1 min read 9 Jul 2025 For people
How governments, companies and international bodies are approaching oversight of increasingly capable AI systems.
AGI 1 min read 8 Jul 2025 For people
Could AI systems be conscious? What researchers think, why it's hard to know, and why the question matters.
AGI 1 min read 7 Jul 2025 For people
Whether general intelligence needs a body, and how progress in robotics and world models relates to AGI.
AGI 1 min read 6 Jul 2025 For people
How to read headlines, announcements and predictions about general AI with healthy scepticism.
AGI 1 min read 5 Jul 2025 For people
Practical steps organisations can take now to benefit from — and be resilient to — rapidly improving AI.
AGI 1 min read 4 Jul 2025 For people
Two capabilities often cited as missing for general intelligence: learning from ongoing experience and generalising to truly new situations.
AGI 1 min read 3 Jul 2025 For people
The idea that AI could accelerate its own improvement, why it's debated, and what evidence would inform it.
AGI 1 min read 2 Jul 2025 For people
A plain-English glossary of the terms you'll meet in debates about general and advanced AI.
AGI 1 min read 1 Jul 2025 For people