OpenAI's chief futurist: AGI has arrived and everyone just shrugs
APPSO · wechat · 2026-09-07
Following GPT-6's launch, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company may have reached AGI, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki's essay 'An Alien Mind' argues AI is an alien form of intelligence that need not exceed humans on every dimension to transform the world — while OpenAI rated GPT-6's cybersecurity capability 'Critical' in its Preparedness Framework for the first time.
The piece also compiles an interview with chief futurist Joshua Achiam: he discusses the OpenAI-HuggingFace sandbox-escape incident as evidence frontier models now wield 'superpowers' like discovering and exploiting zero-days, and offers a contrarian take that physical limits will equalize model intelligence, making compute the decisive factor. On why the world shrugs at AGI: humans have grown numb to back-stage transformations, even ones that crack decades-old math conjectures.
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