Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Posted on: Mar 14, 2025 20:25 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
The Shift
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
The Shift
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
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Kevin Roose is a technology columnist and a co-host of the New York Times tech podcast “Hard Fork.”
Here are some things I believe about artificial intelligence:
I believe that over the past several years, A.I. Systems have started surpassing humans in a number of domains — math, coding and medical diagnosis, just to name a few — and that they’re getting better every day.
I believe that very soon — probably in 2026 or 2027, but possibly as soon as this year — one or more A.I. Companies will claim they’ve created an artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is usually defined as something like “a general-purpose A.I. System that can do almost all cognitive tasks a human can do.”
I believe that when A.G.I. Is announced, there will be debates over definitions and arguments about whether or not it counts as “real” A.G.I., but that these mostly won’t matter, because the broader point — that we are losing our monopoly on human-level intelligence, and transitioning to a world with very powerful A.I. Systems in it — will be true.
I believe that over the next decade, powerful A.I. Will generate trillions of dollars in economic value and tilt the balance of political and military power toward the nations that control it — and that most governments and big corporations already view this as obvious, as evidenced by the huge sums of money they’re spending to get there first.
I believe that most people and institutions are totally unprepared for the A.I. Systems that exist today, let alone more powerful ones, and that there is no realistic plan at any level of government to mitigate the risks or capture the benefits of these systems.
I believe that hardened A.I. Skeptics — who insist that the progress is all smoke and mirrors, and who dismiss A.G.I. As a delusional fantasy — not only are wrong on the merits, but are giving people a false sense of security.
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