artificial general intelligence
also referred to as: agi
10 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2024 by Alex Kolicich · across every show →
Everything said about artificial general intelligence, oldest first
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Genuine AGI safety concerns are 10 to 20 years away
“I think this is likely what we're doing with AI and AI safety and stuff like that, that we could foresee in 1020 years AGI, where there's actual safety issues, but we are so far from that today. That's, I think, actually getting close to the peak of inflated e…”
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Nolan: AGI Is Not Necessary to Scale Nuclear Energy
“I don't know that AGI specifically is really necessary. I think what we just have to do is just start building, and we have the technology in the nuclear industry already. The reactor designs are there, and it's just going to be a matter of deployment and cons…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Taylor: Nuclear and Heavy Construction Are Insulated from AGI Disruption
“I actually think that if you're looking for an investment that is protected from AGI, it's something like this, where it's extremely physical. You're bending steel, you're stacking blocks, you're building plants, you're laying concrete. It's going to be a long…”
Aug 15, 2025 bearish
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
May 1, 2026 bullish
May 1, 2026 bullish
Jun 15, 2026 negative
Zhao: Imminent AGI predictions create a "boy who cried wolf" dynamic
“I mean, I think generally the AI world has An issue around, like, expectations versus delivery of the I think when we have these very dramatic statements about white collar go work going away or you know, we will see, we will have AGI by 20 and 27. Like, I thi…”
Jun 18, 2026 neutral
Pereyra: DeepMind used a top-down 'tech tree' approach to reach AGI
“And then DeepMind was much more top down where Demis just had this vision of, okay, we're going to create AGI. Here's all the things that I think are required. And so they kind of had this tech tree of how they were going to do it. And then let's have all thes…”