AGI already here
Mo Gawdat argues AGI has effectively already arrived in 2025-2026, as AI now outperforms him — a bestselling author and mathematician — in writing, research, and mathematics.
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Tech Whistleblower: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before This Hits! - Mo Gawdat
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Jun 1, 2026
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If AGI Is Already Here, What Now?
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AGI Has Already Arrived — Mo Gawdat
AGI isn't a future milestone — Mo Gawdat says it's already here. AI outperforms him in the exact fields he's spent a career mastering: writing, research, and mathematics. The question is no longer 'when' but 'what do we do next.'
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Mo argues that borrowing 100 IQ points from AI on top of your baseline produces an exponentially larger augmented intelligence because IQ is exponential, not linear.
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