Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei says the pace of AI progress is forcing a hard reset in how people think about capability, timelines and readiness.
In a new CNBC interview, Amodei says the term artificial general intelligence (AGI) is no longer a useful concept today, as today’s AI is more capable than humans in some domains but limited in others.
“Claude can write code about as well as many developers at Anthropic now. Or it can write a percentage of code as well as developers at Anthropic. That’s crazy. We probably employ some of the best engineers and developers in the world. And many of them are saying, ‘Wow, Claude is capable of doing a lot of work that I can do, or extremely accelerating the work that I can do.
And so I think this kind of concept of AGI alone is complicated. And then on the other hand, Claude still can’t do a lot of things that humans can do. And so I think maybe the sort of construct itself is now wrong, or maybe not wrong, but just outdated.”
AGI is a term used to describe an AI that can understand, learn and apply knowledge to solve an intellectual task that a human can perform.
Amodei says AI is progressing at a rapid pace, but warns that it can always stall unexpectedly.
“But I expect that the progress doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Again, nothing slows down until it does. So it’s very possible that it could happen.”
The Anthropic executive says society should start gearing up for a world where AI witnesses exponential growth.
“And I think if I were betting, I would say probably things are going to at least continue to get better, more capable over time. And we should be prepared for a world where that’s true.”
Amodei is not the only industry insider to talk about AI’s rapid improvements as of late. Over the weekend, Google principal engineer Jaana Dogan said Claude Code recreated a system in just one hour that took her team a year to build. Meanwhile, Elon Musk said the world has entered the tech singularity, where AI can do many tasks better than humans.
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