Who predicted what

178 predictions · 163 still open

AGI predictions

When AI matches or beats people across most work: AGI, powerful AI, superintelligence.

ComputeUnverifiedmade Sep 17, 2026, due Dec 2030By the end of 2030 each leading lab will have compute to run hundreds of millions of human-level AIs.Noam Brown, OpenAIAGIAGImade Aug 31, 2026, due Dec 2033AI-run asteroid mining corporations may appear by 2033.Jack Clark, AnthropicAGIUnverifiedmade Aug 11, 2026, due Dec 2031AI research and development will be fully automated around 2030 to 2031.Ryan Greenblatt, Redwood ResearchAgentsAGImade May 26, 2026, due May 2028A new class of technology (AI that builds AI) could arrive within two years.Jack Clark, AnthropicAGImade May 4, 2026, due Dec 2028There is about a 60% chance of automated AI R&D, a model training its own successor, by the end of 2028.Jack Clark, AnthropicAgentsJobsUnverifiedmade Feb 2026, due Aug 2027Most white-collar tasks done at a computer will be fully automated by AI within 12 to 18 months.Mustafa Suleyman, MicrosoftAGIAGIUnverifiedmade Feb 13, 2026, due Feb 2036A "country of geniuses in a data center" will exist within ten years (90% confidence).Dario Amodei, AnthropicAGIUnverifiedmade Feb 13, 2026, due Dec 2027Powerful AI, a "country of geniuses in a data center", will arrive in 2026, or 2027 at the latest.Dario Amodei, AnthropicAGIUnverifiedmade Feb 2026, due Dec 2035There is a 90% chance of a country of geniuses in a data center within ten years, by 2035.Dario Amodei, AnthropicAGIUnverifiedmade Feb 13, 2026, due Feb 2028Models equal to a country of geniuses in a data center could exist within one to two years.Dario Amodei, AnthropicAGIUnverifiedmade Feb 5, 2026, due Feb 2032AI will exceed the combined intelligence of all humans in about five or six years.Elon Musk, xAIAgentsUnverifiedmade Feb 5, 2026, due Dec 2026Digital human emulation, AI that can do any job done at a computer, will be solved by the end of 2026.Elon Musk, xAIAGIAGIUnverifiedmade Jan 29, 2026, due Jan 2036A full AGI system, including physical intelligence, is five to ten years away.Demis Hassabis, DeepMindAgentsmade Jan 14, 2026, due Dec 20262026 will be the year of long-horizon agents, which are functionally AGI.Pat Grady, Sequoia CapitalAGIAGImade Jan 6, 2026, due Jan 2036A self-sufficient AI population, able to survive without humans, is more likely than not within ten years.Ajeya Cotra, METRAGImade Jan 2026, due Jan 2028AI may be one to two years from the point where it autonomously builds its own next generation.Dario Amodei, AnthropicAgentsAGImade Dec 2025, due Dec 2027AGI will not arrive in 2026 or 2027.Gary Marcus, New York UniversityAGImade Dec 2025, due Dec 2030By 2030 labs will have made real progress on continual learning and models will earn hundreds of billions, without automating all knowledge work.Dwarkesh Patel, Dwarkesh PodcastMarketsAGIUnverifiedmade Nov 2025, due Nov 2045An AI that learns as well as a human, and so becomes superhuman, will arrive in 5 to 20 years.Ilya Sutskever, Safe SuperintelligenceSciencemade Nov 2025, due Nov 2028Medical superintelligence will arrive in the next few years.Mustafa Suleyman, MicrosoftAGIAGIUnverifiedmade Oct 17, 2025, due Oct 2045A billion-parameter model will hold a very productive conversation within 20 years.Andrej Karpathy, Eureka LabsAgentsmade Oct 17, 2025, due Oct 2035Making AI agents work like an employee will take about a decade.Andrej Karpathy, Eureka LabsAGIAGImade Jun 2025, due Dec 2039In the 2030s intelligence and energy will become wildly abundant.Sam Altman, OpenAIComputeAGIUnverifiedmade Jun 2025, due Dec 2030AGI will arrive slightly after 2030, just missing that date, though progress by 2030 will be dramatic.Sundar Pichai, GoogleAGImade Jun 2025, due Dec 2032AI will learn on the job as well as a human, for example a video editor after six months, by 2032 (50/50 bet).Dwarkesh Patel, Dwarkesh PodcastAgentsAGImade Apr 3, 2025, due Apr 2035The impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will exceed that of the Industrial Revolution.Daniel Kokotajlo, AI Futures ProjectAGImade Mar 6, 2025, due Mar 2027Powerful AI systems will emerge in late 2026 or early 2027.AnthropicAGImade Mar 2025, due Dec 2028By 2028 AI models could have beyond-human reasoning and complete multi-week projects autonomously.Benjamin Todd, 80,000 HoursAgentsAGImade Feb 2025, due Dec 2035By 2035 anyone will command intellectual capacity equal to everyone alive in 2025.Sam Altman, OpenAIAGImade Jan 1, 2025, due Dec 2027AI smarter than almost all humans at almost all things will most likely arrive in 2026 or 2027.Dario Amodei, AnthropicAGIDue for reviewmade Jan 2025, due Dec 2025No single AI system will solve more than 4 of the Marcus-Brundage tasks by the end of 2025.Gary Marcus, New York UniversityAGImade Oct 2024, due Dec 2026Powerful AI could arrive as early as 2026.Dario Amodei, AnthropicAGImade Sep 23, 2024, due Dec 2032Superintelligence could arrive in a few thousand days.Sam Altman, OpenAIAGImade Sep 1, 2024, due Sep 2034ASI ten thousand times smarter than humans will be realised in about ten years.Masayoshi Son, SoftBank GroupAGImade Jun 2024, due Dec 2027By 2027 AI models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher or engineer.Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness LPCodingAGImade Jun 4, 2024, due Dec 2030Superintelligence will exist by 2030.Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness LPAGIUnverifiedmade Mar 19, 2024, due Mar 2029AGI, defined as passing a set of tests better than most people, will arrive within 5 years.Jensen Huang, NvidiaAGImade Oct 26, 2023, due Dec 2028There is a 50% chance of AGI by 2028.Shane Legg, DeepMindAGIUnverifiedmade 2005, due Dec 2029Computers will reach human-level intelligence by 2029.Ray Kurzweil