On Monday , the world’s political, business, and technology elite will gather in Davos to debate when Artificial General Intelligence will arrive.
That debate is already obsolete and total waste of time. Most of the time data science geeks and ethicists are arguing with each other…
A former OpenAI board member, Helen Toner, recently told U.S. Congress that human-level AI may be 1–3 years away and could pose existential risk.
Why is it not on the news ? The public only hears science fiction.
Here’s is something really uncomfortable and few courageous folks would want to say out loud in Davos:
By every traditional metric of intelligence, AGI is already here.
• AI speaks, reads, and writes 100+ languages
• AI outperforms humans on IQ tests
• AI solves complex math faster than most experts
• AI dominates chess, Go, and strategic reasoning
• AI synthesizes oceans of data in seconds
So far the “general intelligence “definition is shifting all over the place with emotions.
Yet we still hire humans.
We still promote humans.
We still trust humans.
Why? Think again.
Because Intelligence Was Never the Scarce Resource
What’s scarce is context, judgment, accountability, and trust.
Humans don’t just execute tasks. they understand why the task exists.
They anticipate second-order effects.
They notice when the “box” itself is wrong.
AI still needs the world spoon-fed to it, prompt by prompt.
Humans self-correct mid-flight. You understand now
AI corrects only after failure.
Humans form opinions and abandon them when reality shifts.
AI completes patterns, even when the pattern is no longer valid.
And then there’s the most underestimated gap of all:
Humor, connection, and moral intuition.
AI can be clever.
It can be fluent.
It can even be persuasive.
But it is not yet a trusted teammate.
So, The Real AGI Risk Isn’t Superintelligence
The real risk is something Davos understands very well:
Delegating authority before responsibility exists.
Markets are already forcing speed.
Capital is already accelerating deployment.
Institutions are already lagging behind capability.
As Elon Musk warned:
“Humans have been the smartest beings on Earth for a long time. That is about to change.”
He’s right but intelligence alone has never ruled the world.
Power does. Governance does. Incentives do.
So Here’s the Davos Question That Actually Matters
Not “When does AGI arrive?”
But:
What decisions are we still willing to reserve for humans and why?
Elements of AGI are already embedded in markets, codebases, supply chains, and governments.
The future won’t be decided by smarter machines.
It will be decided by who sets the boundaries before the boundaries disappear.
See you in Davos.
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