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AGI is coming faster than we think — we must get ready now

As we are on the brink of breakthroughs in AGI and superintelligence, we need to assess whether we are truly ready for this transformation.

When announcing SSI last June, Sutskever said: “We will pursue safe superintelligence in a straight shot, with one focus, one goal and one product.” Speaking about AI advances a year ago when still at OpenAI, he noted: “It’s going to be monumental, earth-shattering. Elon Musk said that in the longer term, “probably none of us will have a job.” This stark contrast highlights a crucial point: Whatever seems true about AI’s capabilities and impacts in 2024 may be radically different in the AGI world that could be just several years away. While AGI’s actual arrival timeline may not match the most aggressive predictions, its eventual emergence, perhaps in only a few years, could reshape society more profoundly than even today’s optimists envision.

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