AI experts once pegged AGI at 2075-2100 — OpenAI's Astra shows how wrong they were
dee_hw · x · 2026-09-04
Following OpenAI's Astra release, one user revisits Nick Bostrom's classic Superintelligence, noting that experts at the time predicted AGI would arrive around 2075-2100. The pace of AI progress in just the past few years makes those forecasts look wildly conservative — "what a time to be alive in 2026."
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