Digital superintelligence "this year" (2025), or "next year for sure"
“I think we're quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year and if it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure. A digital superintelligence defined as smarter than any human at anything.”
Context: Elon Musk at Y Combinator's AI Startup School (June 2025; YC uploaded the talk on 19 Jun 2025). Wording from the official video's auto-captions; Inc. (21 Jun 2025) quotes the same lines. "Next year" is 2026. A later statement than the seed claims musk-ai-smarter-end-2025 and musk-agi-within-two-years (Apr 2024).
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Our interpretation: correct if by 31 Dec 2026 an AI system is broadly acknowledged as smarter than any human at anything (superhuman in essentially every cognitive domain).
Resolution criteria are our interpretation of the claim, written before grading. Methodology
- Said
- Resolve by
- Due in 81 days
- Verdict
- Open
- Stated probability
- None stated
- Specificity
- 2 of 3 (dated, some interpretation)
Evidence & grader’s note
- What changes for
- Everyone
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