arXiv:2606.12683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the last decade, building human-level artificial general intelligence has moved from far-fetched speculation to being a concrete next-decade target for many of the largest AI organisations. Achieving this goal would have profound and far-reaching impacts on human society, which raises many complex questions for the decade ahead. This report investigates how AI itself might continue to develop in a post-AGI world along the continuum of machine intelligence. The endpoint of this continuum, Universal AI, is theoretically well understood, which
The accelerating pace of AI development, particularly in large language models and foundation models, has moved AGI from theoretical to a near-term engineering challenge for major AI organizations.
This report outlines a continuum of AI development beyond current capabilities, indicating that the strategic focus is shifting from achieving AGI to understanding and potentially guiding the subsequent emergence of ASI.
The focus of leading AI research is evolving from defining human-level intelligence to mapping out the trajectory and implications of post-AGI systems, including Universal AI, fundamentally altering long-term strategic planning for AI governance and societal integration.
- · Leading AI research organizations
- · Applied AI ethics researchers
- · AI governance bodies
- · Infrastructure providers for advanced AI
- · Organizations slow to adapt to super-human AI
- · Traditional economic models
- · Human-centric workforces unprepared for disruptive automation
Increased investment and research into alignment, safety, and control mechanisms for advanced AI systems.
Profound re-evaluation of economic structures and human societal roles as AI capabilities exceed human intelligence across broad domains.
The potential emergence of entirely new forms of governance and socio-economic organization shaped by or in response to superintelligent AI.
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