AI is in a soft take-off scenario, even skeptics expect AGI within a century
emollick · x · 2026-08-07
Professor Ethan Mollick highlights that we are currently experiencing a Vingean soft take-off scenario at a minimum. He notes that even the most AI-skeptical observers now expect AGI/ASI to be achieved and diffused in less than a century.
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