Anthropic CEO: AGI is Closer Than You Think “2026” | Technomics
In this video, we explore the bold prediction made by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, who claims that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could arrive by 2026. We break down what AGI truly means for human society and why this technology is more than just a futuristic concept—it’s becoming a reality faster than expected.
Intro. artificial general intelligence or AGI has been the stuff of Science Fiction for decades but not now Dario amade CEO of anthropic one of the leading AI research companies has made a bold claim AGI could be here as soon as 2026 I actually think ironically because we’re much closer to the kinds of things AGI is pointing at it’s sort of no longer a useful term you know it’s it’s it’s you know it’s a little bit like if you see some object off in the distance on the horizon you can point at it and give it a name but you get close to it you know it turns out it’s like a big sphere or something in just a few short years we might be sharing our world with machines that can think reason and problem solve just like us or even better but why is it such a big deal and why does Amai think it’s closer than most of us realize do you think gb4 is an AGI I think if it is just like with the UF before videos uh we wouldn’t know immediately you can read science but we never told it to read from video just from watching videos just like humans they’re both headed towards AGI my guess is um it there will be limits to what a system that is purely an intelligence can understand about the Human Condition without having the same not just senses but like our bodies change as we get older we kind of evolve and I think that those very subtle physical changes just drive a lot of social patterns and behavior super Superintelligence.43:47 intelligence amid’s vision of powerful AI is mindboggling he’s talking about an AI system that’s smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across multiple Fields biology programming math engineering writing you name it this AI wouldn’t just be a glorified chatbot it would have access to all the interfaces a human working virtually would have text audio video internet access everything but here’s where it gets really wild this AI could control robots run experiments and even design new tools for itself and we are not talking about just one of these AIS but potentially millions of them working in parallel each one operating at 10 to 100 times human speed emodi calls this a country of geniuses in a data center but emodi isn’t some wide-eyed dreamer he’s the CEO of one of the world’s leading AI companies and he’s basing his predictions on the exponential progress we are seeing in the field the really mind-bending part is that em Modi thinks we could reach this point as early as 2026 that’s just a year away so if emodi is right what could this mean for the world well he’s not the only one who thinks this way Sam Alman the CEO of the popular Company open AI shares the same view my biggest piece of advice is like this is a special time and take advantage of it this is like not the time to delay what you were planning to do or wait for the next thing like this is a special moment uh and a few years where a lot of stuff is going to happen and a lot of like great new things are going to get going in a recent interview he predicted that we’re a few thousand days away from Super intelligence but what what does this mean a few thousand days could be anywhere from the next 2 to 30 or even 40 years if you want to learn more about what he revealed regarding super intelligence watch this video by clicking the I button and don’t forget to Biorevolution. subscribe bio Revolution if amid’s predictions are correct we’re on the cusp of a biological Revolution that could make the past Century of medical progress look like Child’s Play it will be like compressing 100 years of progress into just five to 10 years AGI before we saw video conferencing and I I think it’s going to be literally true I think it’s not a joke here’s a taste of what amade envisions infectious diseases will be nearly all of them gone imagine mRNA vaccines and similar technologies that can quickly adapt to Target any pathogen cancer mostly eliminated we’re looking at a potential 95% reduction in both mortality and incidents genetic diseases prevented through advanced embryo screening and cured an existing people through safer more reliable Gene editing techniques however the most jaw-dropping prediction is that amodi believes we could double the human lifespan to 10050 years and that might just be the beginning we could potentially reach a escape velocity where we are extending lifespan faster than time is passing allowing people to live as long as they want this might seem fictional but remember life expectancy nearly doubled in the 20th century we have already seen drugs that increase the maximum lifespan in rats by 25 to 50% some animals like certain turtles have already lived for 200 years Mindscape. mindscape we will have massively superhuman AGI that will exceed humans in essentially every Respec of intelligence but biology is just the beginning amod believes that powerful AI could transform neuroscience and mental health care just as radically he’s predicting that most mental illnesses could be cured conditions like depression PTSD schizophrenia and addiction will be curable in the near future imagine a world where these devastating conditions are as treatable as a common cold emodi also suggests that we might be able to go beyond just treating problems and actually improve the Baseline quality of human experience we could develop drugs that tune cognitive function and emotional state to help people have a more fulfilling day-to-day experience this may sound like something out of Brave New world right and you’re not wrong to be a bit wary there are definitely ethical questions to consider here but think about it this way we already use caffeine to boost our alertness and alcohol to relax what if we had much more precise effective and side effect free ways to modulate our mental States the key here again is the power of AI to accelerate research emoi thinks AI could increase the rate of Neuroscience discoveries by 10 times or more it’s all about compressing A Century of Neuroscience progress into just 5 to 10 years human Human Society.14:40 society grow an AI um it’s it’s almost like like raising a a kid but that’s like a Super Genius Like Godlike intelligence kid um and it matters kind of like how you rais the kid you know if amid’s predictions come true we will be looking at a fundamental reshaping of human society if AI can do most jobs better than humans what does that mean for employment amade suggests we’ll need to have serious conversations about how the economy should be organized but he also believes people will still find ways to feel accomplished even if it’s not through traditional work AI could dramatically accelerate economic growth in developing countries he believes it’s possible to bring the per capita GDP of subsaharan Africa to the level of China’s in just 5 to 10 years that’s an increase from about $1,700 to $12,700 in a decade or less AI could potentially help reduce bias in the legal system and even assist in undermining repressive governments but it also raises concerns about privacy and the concentration of Power with Advanced biotechnology people could have unprecedented control over their bodies weight physical appearance reproduction all of these could be fully under an individual’s control but what about the risks what about inequality what about the misuse of this technology I’m more concerned about the subtle dangers because I think we’re more likely to overlook those the cataclysmic dangers uh a lot of people talk about a lot of people think about and I don’t want to minimize those I think they’re really serious and a real thing um but I think we at least know to look out for that and spend a lot of effort um the the unknown unknowns are really hard and so I’d worry more about those although I worry about both you are right to be concerned amod himself acknowledges these risks in fact that’s a big part of why he and anthropic Focus so much on AI Safety Research but amod believes that these risks are the only thing standing between us and an incredibly positive future he argues that most people are underestimating both the potential upsides and downsides of AI of course all of this is speculative we can’t know for sure what the future will bring but if amade is even half right we are looking at changes that will dwarf the combined industrial and digital revolutions the next few years are going to be incredibly interesting to say the least