Forbes January 17, 2026
One half of the Amodei duo is making headlines this week talking about progress toward AGI – and it’s not the member that most frequently receives attention in tech headlines.
It’s Daniela Amodei, the sister, who is now suggesting that we may already have artificial general intelligence working among us.
“AGI is such a funny term because many years ago it was kind of a useful concept to say: when will artificial intelligence be as capable as a human,” Amodei reportedly said in an interview during the early days of 2026. “And what’s interesting is, by some definitions of that, we’ve already surpassed that.”
That in turn has led large numbers of interested people to do a double-take. What? Already?
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