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Artificial superintelligence, defined as AI that outperforms top human experts across nearly all intellectual domains, may arrive sooner than many people expect – potentially within a year, according to a UCSD researcher who previously estimated it was five years away, pointing to recent striking examples of superhuman AI performance in specialized complex fields. We have already reached the milestone of artificial general intelligence, with the most capable frontier AI systems possessing the same flexible, broad-ranging general intellectual abilities that individual humans do. This rapidly evolving landscape calls for expanded public discussion, independent rigorous evaluations of advanced AI capabilities and safeguards, and coordinated cross-disciplinary efforts especially from universities to help steer these powerful systems in ways that benefit humanity.

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/how-close-are-we-to-artificial-superintelligence