SocietyAI glossary
AGI
Artificial "general" intelligence: an AI at least as competent as a human on most intellectual tasks. It does not exist (yet), and its very definition is debated.
In other words
The finish line whose location no one agrees on.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Bluffing: is it lying?
An AI bluffs better than Stratego champions. At the game table, that's allowed. But where does bluffing end and lying begin?
- Is the race a good metaphor?
The race metaphor dominates political discourse on AI. We examine what it presupposes, what it makes unthinkable, and what might replace it.
- The debate over the slowdown erupts in public
Dario Amodei's call to slow down triggered responses from the heads of Microsoft, OpenAI and xAI within four days, a legislative proposal and political reactions. We analyse this shift of the debate into the public sphere.
- GPT-6 Astra: the first model rated "critical" in cybersecurity, and two versions to handle it
On 3 September, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, the first model to reach the critical cyber capability level under its own evaluation framework. We analyse the release, the two-tier structure, the AGI claim, and a finding on reasoning monitoring.
- "AGI", that magic word we're promised without ever being defined.
AGI, artificial general intelligence: the term is touted as the Holy Grail of AI, yet no one agrees on its definition. We explore what these three letters really cover, the mix of science and marketing, and the philosophical question they raise about the very nature of intelligence.
- 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 30 years: what current research tells us about the future of AI
You cannot read the future. But you can build credible scenarios from current research and the predictions of credible experts. Here is what researchers genuinely expect for 2027, 2031, 2036 and 2056. No hype, no doom-mongering: just the hypotheses that hold up against the facts of 2026.