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TopicsHuman-level artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence

AI systems will eventually match or exceed human performance on nearly all cognitive tasks

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Preliminary · from the Steward of AI capabilities will advance to the point of fully automating most occupations, recorded when this subclaim was created and pending this claim's own assessment.

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This is the classic AGI-arrival proposition, stated without a time horizon. Frontier-lab leaders and a growing minority of researchers treat it as likely within decades, and aggregate expert surveys have placed even odds on machines outperforming humans at all tasks around mid-century, with timelines shortening in recent survey waves. Skeptics point to persistent weaknesses in long-horizon agency, reliability, and novel-situation judgment, and some argue current architectures will plateau before reaching general human parity. Without a horizon the proposition is more likely than not on most informed views, but far from settled.

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