AGI Strategies

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Mike Knoop

Co-founder ARC Prize; ex-Zapier

Co-founder of Zapier and, with François Chollet, of the 'ARC Prize', a public competition built around the ARC-AGI benchmark to reward systems that demonstrate genuine generalization rather than scaled pattern matching.

current Co-founder, ARC Prize
past Co-founder, Zapier

Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues frontier LLM benchmarks have been collapsing into 'memorization plus retrieval' and that ARC-AGI shows current systems are not on a smooth path to general intelligence.

Existing frontier models score under 50% on ARC-AGI puzzles that are easy for humans. The gap reveals what 'general intelligence' really demands beyond scale.
articleARC Prize 2024, Announcement· ARC Prize· 2024-06· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Mike Knoop's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abhijit Banerjee

    Abhijit Banerjee

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

Record last updated 2026-04-25.