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What's up with Anthropic predicting AGI by early 2027?

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As far as I’m aware, Anthropic is the only AI company with official AGI timelines1: they expect AGI by early 2027. In their recommendations (from March 2025) to the OSTP for the AI action plan they say: As our CEO Dario Amodei writes in ‘Machines of Loving Grace’, we expect powerful AI systems will emerge in late 2026 or early 2027. Powerful AI systems will have the following properties: Intellectual capabilities matching or exceeding that of Nobel Prize winners across most disciplines—including biology, computer science, mathematics, and engineering. [...] They often describe this capability level as a “country of geniuses in a datacenter”. This prediction is repeated elsewhere and Jack Clark confirms that something like this remains Anthropic’s view (as of September 2025). Of course, just because this is Anthropic’s official prediction2 doesn’t mean that all or even most employees at Anthropic share the same view.3 However, I do think we can reasonably say that Dario Amodei, Jack Cla

What's up with Anthropic predicting AGI by early 2027? I operationalize Anthropic's prediction of "powerful AI" and explain why I'm skeptical Ryan Greenblatt Nov 03, 2025 23 3 Share As far as I’m aware, Anthropic is the only AI company with official AGI timelines 1 : they expect AGI by early 2027. In their recommendations (from March 2025) to the OSTP for the AI action plan they say: As our CEO Dario Amodei writes in ‘Machines of Loving Grace’, we expect powerful AI systems will emerge in late 2026 or early 2027. Powerful AI systems will have the following properties: Intellectual capabilities

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