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In one viewHypothetical intelligence substantially exceeding the best humans across most intellectual tasks, including scientific research and technology development.

Neither an arrival date nor a path is established. Self-improvement is one proposed scenario, not a guaranteed property; compute, reliability and control remain separate questions.

HYPOTHESISDate unknown
Thought experimentAGI
ASIBeyond a single scale

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More levels, more feedback

Add levels and explore how the connections become more complex. This is a visual hypothesis about a system beyond human scale.

Conceptual diagram. Its controls do not measure progress or predict dates.

Development chronology

Planned

forecast

"A few thousand days"

About this eventSam Altman described superintelligence as possible within a few thousand days, not as a dated forecast.

Distant horizons

condition

Recursive self-improvement

About this eventOne possible scenario is a system accelerating its own development. A sustained improvement loop still needs to be demonstrated; high model scores do not establish it automatically.

condition

The cost of misalignment

About this eventThe higher the capability, the more a goal mismatch costs. Not philosophy but an engineering requirement on the reliability gate.

Sources and research

Primary material behind this dossier: papers, lab publications and official reports.

Capabilities on the main line