AGI

I logged into a Google Meet expecting the usual tech meetup optimism. What I found instead was something more sobering—a virtual room full of AI researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts genuinely wrestling with whether we’re prepared for what’s coming next. The New York Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group hosted an in-depth virtual seminar on AGI—“AGI: What, When, How…and Are We Ready?"—and the conversations that emerged were both fascinating and unsettling. Here’s what stuck with me from that evening online. ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how quickly AI is advancing, and I keep coming back to the same question: Are we really prepared for what’s coming? Not just technically, but economically and socially? Last month, I spent some time diving into Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shifts—those moments when our fundamental understanding of something completely transforms. The more I read about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the more convinced I am that we’re standing at the edge of exactly this kind of transformation in economics. And honestly? It’s both fascinating and terrifying. ...