timelines
Every AGI timeline on the record.
What counts as AGI varies. So does what the person was predicting: 50% confidence, first plausibility, or definitional passage of a specific test. Each claim below is paired with a dated source so you can judge in context.
distribution · latest forecast per person
- By 20272
- 2028–20304
- 2031–20404
- 2041–20600
- Beyond 20600
Each forecaster shown once, using their most recent dated claim. Below, every claim is listed individually, including revisions.
By 2027
2
Dario Amodei
2026milestonePowerful AI (Anthropic's internal term for transformative AI)
CEO of Anthropic; 'Machines of Loving Grace' author
2024-10-11Machines of Loving Grace · darioamodei.com

Leopold Aschenbrenner
2027p=50%milestoneAGI
Author of 'Situational Awareness'; former OpenAI Superalignment team
2024-06Situational Awareness · For Our Posterity
2028–2030
4
Shane Legg
2028p=50%milestoneHuman-level AGI (50% confidence)
Google DeepMind co-founder; chief AGI scientist
2023-10-26Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder), 2028 AGI · Dwarkesh Patel Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel
2029p=25%milestoneAGI (25th percentile)
Dwarkesh Podcast host; AI progress commentator
2023Dwarkesh Podcast · Dwarkesh Podcast

Jensen Huang
2029p=50%milestoneNarrowly defined AGI (bar exam, logic tests)
CEO of NVIDIA; supplier of the frontier AI compute stack
2024-03-19Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang AGI 5 years quote · TechCrunch

Ray Kurzweil
2029milestoneHuman-level AGI
Futurist; The Singularity Is Near (1948–)
2005Ray Kurzweil predictions · Wikipedia
2031–2040
4
Matthew Barnett
2033p=50%milestoneTransformative AI (median estimate via direct approach)
Epoch AI forecaster; Metaculus AI timelines
2025-01Matthew Barnett Metaculus model · Metaculus

Masayoshi Son
2035milestoneArtificial Superintelligence
SoftBank CEO; major AI investor
2024-06-21Masayoshi Son ASI prediction · SoftBank

Yoshua Bengio
2028–2043milestoneHuman-level AI
Turing Award laureate; scientific chair of the International AI Safety Report
2023-07-25My testimony in front of the U.S. Senate · US Senate
Ajeya Cotra
2040p=50%milestoneTransformative AI
Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster
2022-08-02Two-year update on my personal AI timelines · AI Alignment Forum
2041–2060
1
Ray Kurzweil
2045milestoneSingularity (human-machine merger)
Futurist; The Singularity Is Near (1948–)
2005The Singularity Is Near · Viking