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Q&A: Max Read on What ‘AGI Is Coming’ Actually Means

Columbia Journalism Review · Camille Bromley · last updated

You may have heard the alarming news that world-changing artificial intelligence is coming very soon. Last month, the New York Times columnist Ezra Klein published a conversation with Ben Buchanan, the Biden administration’s AI adviser, in which Klein said, “Person after person—from artificial intelligence labs, from government—has been coming to me saying: It’s really about to happen.” According to Klein’s sources, artificial general intelligence, or “AGI,” which is generally used to refer to an AI system that can match or exceed humans at any cognitive task, will arrive in the next two to three years.

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