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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

A hypothetical level of AI with human-like flexibility, capable of transferring knowledge across different tasks and contexts.

Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, refers to a hypothetical level of intelligence that can transfer knowledge across different problem types and operate flexibly across broad contexts, unlike systems that excel at only one task. The emphasis here is not just high performance but adaptability, abstraction, reasoning, and responsiveness to novelty. For that reason, AGI is both a technical and conceptual discussion. Today’s powerful models may appear versatile, but that does not automatically make them AGI. AGI remains a major threshold discussed across research, safety, strategy, and philosophy.