AGIRecord · musk-2020-agi
Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla and SpaceX
Why they matterCEO of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI
- Status
- Closed
- Prediction made
- 2020
- Predicted arrival
- 2025
- Interval
- 5 yrs
“We are headed toward a situation where AI is vastly smarter than humans. I think that time frame is less than five years from now.”
Context
One of several near-term AGI framings Musk has offered over the years.
Why it is considered incorrect
By 2025 frontier systems exceeded humans on many narrow benchmarks but did not meet common definitions of general intelligence surpassing any single human across arbitrary tasks.
Source
Elon Musk: The Maureen Dowd Interview — The New York Times