AGI Is Here, but Companies Are Still Built for the Pre-AGI World
The Post-AGI Era
The author argues that AGI has arrived as a threshold of generality and autonomy, yet most organizations still use AI as a tool to make humans better at existing work. The real post-AGI shift is redesigning companies around autonomous agents that collaborate, evaluate one another, and recursively improve their own systems. He describes building such an organization at Infinite Ascent, with trading agents, reviewers, a meta-harness, and an internal IT department for agents.
The more consequential effect of AGI will therefore not be felt when AI becomes merely a better assistant to humans, but when increasingly autonomous systems begin operating substantial parts of organizations themselves, learning from the work they perform and using those learnings to improve the systems that enable their work.
- automatic6131
AGI hasn't arrived, all we have is Artifical General Marketing
- wavemode
I have been hearing people say "[latest model] is AGI already, organizations just aren't leveraging it yet" all the way since GPT 4o. And people will probably continue making this claim every time a new frontier model comes out.
- atleastoptimal
Nice essay but the core point of AGI is that it will universally disempower humans in all domains, send the value of human labor to 0, and construct a world far beyond human comprehension that will be disorienting and horrifying.
- bunderbunder
The coolest thing about a term that doesn't actually have a meaningful, agreed-upon definition is that you can write 3,700 words about it without doing much beyond explaining what you think it should mean.
- seydor
> Compute, energy, physical infrastructure, land, raw materials, and the speed at which new capacity can be constructed may become some of the principal bottlenecks of the post-AGI economy.
We 've been here before. This post-AGI era is a lot like the era of slavery. So what matters is basically the ownership of land (because you can use it to generate energy/compute, raw materials and build infrastructure on it). Bill Gates was right to invest in land.
Hail to the new feudalism!