{
  "id": 7522583,
  "title": "OpenAI says the AGI era has begun. AI researchers aren’t so sure",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/openai-says-the-agi-era-has-begun-ai-researchers-arent-so-sure",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-15T09:11:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91607269/openai-says-the-agi-era-has-begun-ai-researchers-arent-so-sure"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Earlier this month, OpenAI's president Greg Brockman declared at the launch event for the company's new GPT-6 Astra model that the \"AGI era\" had begun. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to AI systems that can match or surpass human abilities across virtually every cognitive task. While many industry figures have echoed this claim, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, many AI researchers remain skeptical. There is no universally accepted definition of AGI, and some experts argue that today's AI models have not yet achieved it. The ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, developed by AI researcher François Chollet, tests a model's ability to navigate unfamiliar situations, learn efficiently, and win in video games. Astra scored 99.9% on OpenAI's harness but only 62.7% on the standard testing setup. However, Chollet argues that the benchmark doesn't represent the finish line for AGI, as it tests only a non-exhaustive set of attributes at very small scales. New York University professor Gary Marcus, a noted AI skeptic, maintains that Astra is not a radical departure from previous models and is not a sign of AGI. He points out that Astra's performance on the Epoch Capabilities Index is still consistent with the existing trajectory of AI progress. AI researcher Andy Konwinski emphasizes that these systems can't think on their own for long and excel only in narrow tasks, such as coding. Although Astra may be very strong in some areas, such as math and programming, it remains weak in others. Ben Goertzel, the data scientist who coined the term \"artificial general intelligence,\" suggests that Astra is superhuman at some things but subhuman at others, making it difficult to compare it to a human being.",
  "summary": "Earlier this month, speaking at the launch event for OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra , Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, declared that the “AGI era” had begun. AGI, or artificial general intelligence , generally refers to AI systems that can match or surpass human abilities across virtually every cognitive task. Long regarded as the holy grail of AI research, AGI has for decades remained a goal…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}