What's Contested? What Don't We Know?
What Is AGI, Actually?
Three live controversies: what IS AGI?, does scaling get there?, is alignment solvable? Overhyped, underhyped.
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4 pagesLesson 8 — What's Contested? What Don't We Know?
Understanding the Complex: What Is AGI, Actually?
AGI is unusual among major technology questions in the depth of disagreement among its most serious practitioners. This isn't a case of experts vs. skeptics. It's a case of leading researchers at the world's best institutions holding fundamentally different views about the same empirical reality. This lesson maps those disagreements honestly.