The evidence so far suggests that lofty proclamations about AI doubling human lifespans and attaining superintelligence before the next Olympics are blustering attempts to woo more investors, says Alix Dunn, founder and CEO of Computer Says Maybe, a technology policy organization.

As expected, OpenAI has released its first autonomous AI agent, called Operator this week. Operator can act independently from you on your computer using a web browser doing pretty much anything that can be done in a web browser.

Indeed, AGI will most likely be able to reason, learn, and innovate in any task. It will also not only match but outperform humans in its cognitive capabilities – and the milestone might even be reached this year, as the eternal AI optimist, Open AI CEO Sam Altman argues.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that generative AI could surpass human cognitive capabilities "in almost everything," even robotics, within 2-3 years.

The World Economic Forum, colloquially called "Davos" after the location at which it's hosted in the Swiss mountains, is a yearly meeting of elites.

On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Talk of AI agents is everywhere in Davos. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warned against them.

The 55 th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum opened this week with a powerful message and all-encompassing themes. Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman of the Board of ...

As AI heavyweights boast big advances for 2025, CIOs advise their peers to focus on the practicalities of business-aligned use cases that augment rather than replace human work.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and WEF founder Klaus Schwab meet the media at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has served as a platform to address global challenges, yet 83% of its original delegates were men.

Smaller firms struggle to get the finance they need to become greener – but new partnerships between governments and banks could be part of the solution.