Comment by Dario Amodei

I don’t know exactly when it’ll come, I don’t know if it’ll be 2027. I think it’s plausible it could be longer than that. I don’t think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than almost all humans at almost everything. And then eventually better than all humans at everything, even robotics. [...] We’ve recognized that we’ve reached the point as a technological civilization where the idea, there’s huge abundance and huge economic value, but the idea that the way to distribute that value is for humans to produce economic labor, and this is where they feel their sense of self worth. Once that idea gets invalidated, we’re all going to have to sit down and figure it out.
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies support: the author says AI will become "better than humans at almost everything" and then "eventually better than all humans at everything," and suggests this will not be "a whole bunch longer" after the earlier milestone. That indicates AGI-like systems could quickly progress to superintelligent capability. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote says AI will be 'better than humans at almost everything' and later 'better than all humans at everything,' but it does not explicitly say AGI would 'quickly' lead to superintelligence. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified The quote directly links advanced AI/AGI ('AI systems are better than humans at almost everything') with 'huge abundance and huge economic value,' which clearly expresses the claim that AGI will create abundance. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
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AI Verified The quote says that when AI is better than humans, "there’s huge abundance and huge economic value," which directly supports the claim that AGI will create abundance. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Ars Technica’s January 22, 2025 article at the provided URL contains the quoted passages and attributes them to Dario Amodei; the first paragraph appears verbatim in the article snippet, and the second paragraph also appears there verbatim. A transcript mirror of the WSJ Davos interview matches the same remarks in context, with only minor spoken-language disfluencies normalized in the article’s printed quote. ([arstechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/anthropic-chief-says-ai-could-surpass-almost-all-humans-at-almost-everything-shortly-after-2027/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
AI Unverifiable The source URL (arstechnica.com) could not be fetched by Claude Code. However, the quote is independently confirmed verbatim via web search results: Dario Amodei made these statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos (January 2025), saying "I don't know exactly when it'll come, I don't know if it'll be 2027... AI systems are better than humans at almost everything" and "we've reached the point as a technological civilization where there's huge abundance and huge economic value." Vote alignment is correct (for "AGI will create abundance" - Amodei explicitly invokes "huge abundance"). Marking ai_unverifiable since the source URL is inaccessible to AI fetching. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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