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What Is Artificial General Intelligence?
What people mean by AGI, why there's no agreed definition, and how it differs from today's AI systems.
AGI 2 min read 3 Jul 2025
AGI
Artificial general intelligence: definitions, progress, timelines, risks, benefits and governance.
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Narrow AI, General AI and Superintelligence
The distinctions between task-specific AI, human-level general AI and hypothetical superintelligence.
AGI 1 min read 2 Jul 2025
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How Would We Know AGI Has Arrived?
Tests, benchmarks and practical measures proposed for recognising general intelligence in machines, and their limits.
AGI 1 min read 1 Jul 2025
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A Brief History of the Quest for AGI
From the 1956 Dartmouth workshop through AI winters to large language models: how ambitions for general AI evolved.
AGI 1 min read 30 Jun 2025
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Scaling and the Path to General AI
The debate over whether bigger models, more data and more compute will lead to general intelligence.
AGI 1 min read 29 Jun 2025
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What Today's AI Can and Can't Do
A grounded look at current AI strengths and weaknesses, as context for debates about general intelligence.
AGI 1 min read 28 Jun 2025
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AGI Timelines: Why Predictions Differ
Why experts disagree so widely about when general AI might arrive, and how to read forecasts critically.
AGI 1 min read 27 Jun 2025
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The AI Alignment Problem
Why making advanced AI systems reliably pursue intended goals is difficult, and why it grows more important with capability.
AGI 1 min read 26 Jun 2025
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Risks From Advanced AI
The categories of risk discussed around increasingly general AI: misuse, accidents, structural harms and loss of control.
AGI 1 min read 25 Jun 2025
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Potential Benefits of Advanced AI
How increasingly capable, general AI could accelerate science, medicine, education and productivity.
AGI 1 min read 24 Jun 2025
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AGI and the Future of Work
How increasingly general AI could change jobs, skills and the economy, and how individuals and organisations can prepare.
AGI 1 min read 23 Jun 2025
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AI Safety Research Directions
The main research areas aimed at making advanced AI safe: interpretability, evaluation, oversight and control.
AGI 1 min read 22 Jun 2025
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Governing Advanced AI
How governments, companies and international bodies are approaching oversight of increasingly capable AI systems.
AGI 1 min read 21 Jun 2025
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Consciousness and AI
Could AI systems be conscious? What researchers think, why it's hard to know, and why the question matters.
AGI 1 min read 20 Jun 2025
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Embodiment and Robotics on the Road to AGI
Whether general intelligence needs a body, and how progress in robotics and world models relates to AGI.
AGI 1 min read 19 Jun 2025
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Evaluating Claims About AGI
How to read headlines, announcements and predictions about general AI with healthy scepticism.
AGI 1 min read 18 Jun 2025
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Preparing Organisations for More Capable AI
Practical steps organisations can take now to benefit from — and be resilient to — rapidly improving AI.
AGI 1 min read 17 Jun 2025
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Continual Learning and Generalisation
Two capabilities often cited as missing for general intelligence: learning from ongoing experience and generalising to truly new situations.
AGI 1 min read 16 Jun 2025
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Recursive Self-Improvement and Intelligence Explosion
The idea that AI could accelerate its own improvement, why it's debated, and what evidence would inform it.
AGI 1 min read 15 Jun 2025
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Key Terms in AGI Discussions
A plain-English glossary of the terms you'll meet in debates about general and advanced AI.
AGI 1 min read 14 Jun 2025