Helen Toner on AGI could quickly lead to superintellig…

Helen Toner

Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member

The companies at the frontier are actively working to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), i.e. AI that is as capable as human experts across a wide range of fields. The CEOs of these companies claim that this goal will likely be reached within the next 2-5 years, a view shared by top researchers and engineers both inside and outside of these companies. Once they reach AGI, they plan to push ahead with building “superintelligence,” i.e. AI that is far smarter and more capable than humans.

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Helen Toner, written testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, “Stealth Stealing: China’s Ongoing Theft of U.S. Innovation,” April 22, 2026, p. 6.

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