Question 1

What is the economic risk during the transition to AGI?

Accepted Answer

_The dangerous window may not be an evil superintelligence, but the gap between AGI that can automate jobs and superintelligence that can deliver abundance._

> What worries me is the period after you have the first human-level AGI but before you have a superintelligence that can bring massive abundance. You've got an AGI that can in principle automate almost any job and is crunching through one industry after another, but you don't yet have the superintelligence that can airdrop a molecular nano-assembler in everyone's backyard. What happens to the world economy in that interval? Who gives universal basic income in the Central African Republic?

Source: [Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052826/)

Question 2

Why is doing 95% of human jobs not the same as AGI?

Accepted Answer

_Automating most work would be hugely valuable, but value is not the same as general intelligence._

> When Sam Altman says his definition of AGI is an AI that can do 95% of human jobs, that's really not it. If you could make a system to do 95% of human jobs but it does it just by copying a huge amount of training data that contains a million examples of each job, that may be incredibly valuable and have immense humanitarian value, but it's not making big leaps of generalization beyond its training data, so it's not an AGI.

Source: [Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052826/)

Q&A, automation

What is the economic risk during the transition to AGI?

Why is doing 95% of human jobs not the same as AGI?