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Our vision is personal superintelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing. It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are. AI Verified source (2026)

I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI. [...] It is not out of the question that a Claude [model] was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for 50 cents, and then it ... more AI Verified source (2026)

I hope that we will reach AGI and ASI superintelligence someday, maybe within our lifetimes, maybe within the next few decades or hundreds of years, we’ll see how long it takes. Even AI has to obey the laws of physics, so I think physics will place l... more AI Verified source (2025)

I think broadly speaking with AI, … rather than coming up with a detailed plan and blueprint in advance, we’ll have to kind of feel our way through this and make adjustments as we go along as new opportunities come into view. […] I think ultimately t... more AI Verified source (2025)

Yeah, I think those systems would be right on the boundary. So I think most emergent systems, cellular automata, things like that could be model-able by a classical system. You just sort of do a forward simulation of it and it’d probably be efficient... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. ... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

[…] there is enormous positive potential otherwise we wouldn’t develop it. AI can invent new medicines. Uh, you can have AI doctors providing billions of people around the world with much, much better healthcare than what people receive today. I’m n... more AI Verified source (2024)

AGI definition is same level as a human brain, that is AGI, artificial general intelligence, but people have a different point of view, definition of artificial superintelligence. How super? You know, ten times super? A hundred times super? My defini... more AI Verified source (2024)

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. [...] I'm confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial. Unverified source (2024)

Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. We have started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. It’s ca... more AI Verified source (2024)

I don't like the phrase AGI. I prefer human-level intelligence because human intelligence is not general. Internally, we call this AMI-advanced machine intelligence. We have a pretty good plan on how to get there. First, we are building systems that... more AI Verified source (2024)

AI is the pivotal technology that will allow us to meet the pressing challenges that confront us, including overcoming disease, poverty, environmental degradation, and all of our human frailties. We have a moral imperative to realize the promise of t... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

As the race to AGI intensifies, the national security state will get involved. The USG will wake from its slumber, and by 27/28 we’ll get some form of government AGI project. No startup can handle superintelligence. And so by 27/28, the endgame will... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

Our long-term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit. We’re bringing our two major AI research efforts (FAIR and GenAI) closer together to support this. We’re current... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industria... more AI Verified source (2023)

I think when one day we are on the brink of discovering AGI, [...] we will want to do it, but it will be imperative to tweak our laws, including our laws about education, to make sure that the AGIs that we make will not evolve into enemies of civilis... more AI Verified source (2023)

Well, I’ll tell you anyway: personally, I’m not worried. I have been trying to build something capable of replacing me since the 1980s, because I consider that effort exciting and fascinating, and because I believe that it’s the natural next step for... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

The development and proliferation of AI – far from a risk that we should fear – is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future. We should be living in a much better world with AI, and now we can. Rather than allo... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

The original vision of AI was re-articulated in 2002 via the term “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI. This vision is to build “Thinking Machines” - computer systems that can learn, reason, and solve problems similar to the way humans do. […] Wh... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

Like, right, right now, if I’m in a really good mood, I take everything blissfully and calmly. If I’m in a bad mood and someone points out something I did that was wrong or stupid, like there’s some anger that rises up inside me, I’m like, “f*** you.... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

One is that artificial general intelligence is still very far away. We’ve made a lot of progress in AI, but there’s far, far more still to go. It’s a very long journey. We’ve come a thousand miles, but there’s a million more to go. So, a lot of the t... more AI Verified source (2021)

It’s just a matter of the implications of continually making progress in building more and more intelligent machines. Any progress, it doesn’t have to be Moore’s law, it just has to be continued progress, will ultimately deliver us into relationship ... more AI Verified source (2020)

Perhaps the most ambitious scientific quest in human history is the creation of general artificial intelligence, which roughly means AI that is as smart or smarter than humans. The dominant approach in the machine learning community is to attempt to ... more AI Verified source (2019)

I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). [...] I should be working on it. AI Verified source (2019)

I think we can all agree already now that we should aspire to build AGI that doesn't overpower us, but that empowers us. And think of the many various ways that can do that, whether that's from my side of the world of autonomous vehicles. I'm persona... more AI Verified source (2018)

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and benefic... more AI Unverifiable source (2018)

Because ultimately I'm a Cosmist. I think humanity should build artilects - gods. To choose never to do such a thing, would be a tragic mistake, I feel. We are too limited to be much as humans, but artilects have no limits. They could be as magnifice... more AI Verified source (1997)

We can change ourselves, and we can also build new children who are properly suited for the new conditions. Robot children. "Not at all. Long before the cancer, I was already obsessively committed to robots for whatever neurotic reason. That was whe... more AI Verified source (1995)

Does this mean that machines will replace us? I don't feel that it makes much sense to think in terms of "us" and "them." I much prefer the attitude of Hans Moravec of Carnegie-Mellon University, who suggests that we think of those future intelligent... more AI Verified source (1994)

The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultra-intelligent machine. In order to design an ultraintelligent machine we need to understand more about the human brain or human thought or both. In the following pages an attempt is made... more AI Verified source (1965)

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 AI Verified source (2023)

This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our... more AI Verified source (2026)

Normally we talk about AI as a thing. It's this object that's out there. The AI did this; the AI did that. But there's another way [to think about it], which is to say, no, it's a collaboration of humans. AI Verified source (2026)

I am not a fan of AI. [...] I've seen no sign yet that we understand well enough how the brain works to get to that point that it replaces the human; has emotions; cares about things; wants to help others; wants to be a good person. AI Verified source (2026)

I think there are ways in which [the pursuit of artificial general intelligence] is a misguided agenda. [...] It would have huge social consequences that are quite adverse. AI Verified source (2026)

If I can only convey one thing about AI: Companies are racing to develop AIs that will outcompete humans at everything. Not just "jobs" but also politics, strategy, persuasion, influence. If anyone builds a country of geniuses in a datacenter, those ... more Unverified source (2026)

When you're taking over all cognitive functions—the ability to answer a question, to make a decision, to make a plan... you are turning someone into less than a human being. AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 2 >

For me, AI should be grounded and centred on the person and how to best help the person. But for a lot of people, it's grounded and centred on the technology. [...] The AGI thing, the AGI narrative, sidesteps that, and instead actually puts forward t... more AI Verified source (2025)

If we build it using anything remotely like modern methods, on anything remotely like the current understanding or lack of understanding that we have about AI, then yeah, building it anytime soon would be a death sentence. [...] When you're in a car ... more AI Verified source (2025)

This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. Join ... more AI Verified source (2025)

Putting liability on users feels most incentive-compatible. While the link between how a model is developed and how it ends up being used is often unclear, the user decides exactly how the AI is used. Liability on users creates a strong pressure to d... more AI Verified source (2025)

I’m not that into slowing down right now. [...] Where the pause needs to happen is right around when you’re getting close to human-level intelligence. AI Verified source (2025)

I actually do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we will build AGI [artificial general intelligence] machines that can outsmart us all. Not because we can't … but rather we might just not want to. So why are obsessing about trying to build so... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a cho... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

The thought of open source AGI being released before we have worked out how to regulate these very powerful AI systems is really very scary. In the wrong hands technology like this could do a great deal of harm. It is so irresponsible for a company t... more AI Verified source (2024)

We haven’t lost until we have lost. We still have a great chance to do it right and we can have a great future. We can use narrow AI tools to cure aging, an important problem and I think we are close on that front. Free labor, physical and cognitive,... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

Because you're saying like well one, these things are not climate friendly to begin with, right, so like how dare you even put it in the same camp. Two, it's okay to unsettle humanness and if you actually listen to people who you know like uh people ... more AI Verified source (2023)

We’d be best off building AIs as tools rather than as agents or rivals. AI Verified source (2023)

Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

We need to change the target. It’s 100 times easier to look at something existing and think, “OK, can we substitute a machine or a human there?” The really hard thing is, “let’s imagine something that never existed before.” [...] But ultimately that... more AI Unverifiable source (2022)

So, given how hard it is to be fair, why should we build AI that needs us to be fair to it? […] And I’m recommending that if you specify something, if you say okay this is when you really need rights in this context, okay once we’ve established that,... more AI Verified source (2017)

The development of full artificial intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race. AI Verified source (2014)

How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in computing power seem to make it possible by 2030. And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species—to an intelligent robot that can make evolved... more AI Verified source (2000)

If you think building AGI is okay, like anthropic should just be allowed to build AGI or whatever. And then, okay, you should state that clearly. And then people who don't think that's okay, should also state that clearly. And they should have the co... more AI Unverifiable source