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Expert opinions on AGI
Quotes, votes and policy statements on AGI from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
138 sourced quotes · 5 policy proposals and claims
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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For (24)Added 18d agoScott AlexanderAuthor and psychiatristvotes For and says:AI has gone from "dumber than a child" to "expert level" in a few years in many domains. The gap between "expert level" and "above top geniuses" is smaller, so we expect it to take less time. This has been a pattern in fields like chess and Go, where...
more AI Verified source (Jun 11, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (7)Added 5d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.
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Build artificial general intelligence
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For (26)Added 26d agoRichard SocherAI researcher; founder and CEO of Recursive Superintelligence; founder of You.com; former Chief Scientist at Salesforcevotes For and says:Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 8mo agoMustafa SuleymanMicrosoft AI CEO; authorabstains and says:This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress...
more Disputed source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (18)Added 11d agoDivya SiddarthFounder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI developmentvotes Against and says:A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.
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For (12)Added 1mo agoDuncan Cass-BeggsExecutive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); former OECD Senior Counsellor for Strategic Foresightvotes For and says:
[...] And the whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait -- let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working togethe...
more AI Verified source (Feb 16, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (16)Added 24d agoNarendra PatelObstetrician and House of Lords peervotes Against and says:I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite...
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AGI will create abundance
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For (13)Added 1mo agoBill GatesPhilanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.votes For and says:There is no upper limit on how intelligent AIs will get or on how good robots will get, and I believe the advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. [...] AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 4mo agoTim DettmersMachine learning researchervotes Against and says:The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...
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For (7)Added 1mo agoTim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Webvotes For and says:
I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 6mo agoDan HendrycksAI safety researcherabstains and says:Well, there are positive signs, for instance, like Henry Kissinger was recently suggested in foreign affairs that the US cooperate with China on this issue now, but before it's too late. So I think some people are recognizing the the importance of tr...
more Unverifiable source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Added 1mo agoGuido ReichstadterMarine veteran turned anti-AI activist; co-founder of Stop AI; known for hunger strikes at Anthropic and bridge protests in DC against AGI developmentvotes Against and says:I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.
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