The Aiomic Age
ProgrammesVII

The AGI Clock

Forthcoming

The AGI Clock is a standing instrument rather than a recurring essay. It reads the state of artificial intelligence as a time of day: midnight the singularity, morning what is already in production under real consequence, evening what remains argument. The hands move only when an event in the published taxonomy requires it, and every move ships with the justification that permitted it — including the moves that go backward.

Cadence
Moves on events
Presented by
Karim Galzahr, Moss Trestman, Sven Jungmann

No reading yet

The hands move only on an event from a published taxonomy, and only with a published justification. Both are being written before the first reading is taken, so that the reading can be argued with rather than simply announced.

MidnightNot yet read
A 24-hour clock face. Midnight, at the top, marks the singularity. The morning holds milestones already passed: Turing's test, Deep learning, Language models. The evening holds what has not yet happened: Reliable autonomy, AI-led science, Self-improvement. No reading has been taken yet, so the dial shows no hand.

The methodology, written in public

No reading has been taken yet. The method is being written in public first, so that the first reading arrives with its justification rather than ahead of it.

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