Gradual AGI
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Ceiling, Floor, and Slope: A Falsifiable Dynamical Model of Synchronization for Gradual AGI
By W.H.L. and Claude (Sonnet 5) Champaign Magazine Series on Gradual AGI #4 Abstract Prior work in this series proposed Ceiling, Floor, and Slope as vocabulary for the rate at which societies assimilate advancing AI capability, reframing “Gradual AGI” as a civilizational assimilation rate rather than a single capability threshold. That vocabulary was descriptive: it… Continue reading
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Gradual AGI as Synchronization for Transformative Adoption
By W.H.L., GPT-5.5 Champaign Magazine Series on Gradual AGI #3 Gradual AGI as Synchronization for Transformative Adoption Abstract Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is often discussed in terms of increasingly capable machine intelligence. While advances in computational capability remain essential, they alone cannot explain how AGI ultimately transforms human civilization. The decisive challenge lies not only… Continue reading
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Gradual AGI as Abundant Resources
By W.H.L and ChatGPT Gradual AGI as Abundant Resources A Gradualist Perspective on Artificial General Intelligence Authors: W.H.L., GPT-5.5 Abstract In Gradual AGI as Epistemic Extension, we argued that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) should be understood not as a singular event but as a gradual expansion of humanity’s epistemic capabilities. The present essay extends that… Continue reading
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Gradual AGI as Epistemic Extension
By W.H.L. with ChatGPT Gradual AGI as Epistemic Extension Re-thinking Artificial General Intelligence in 2026 I. Introduction: Reframing AGI After the Year of Acceleration After the extraordinary acceleration of large language models in 2025, it is tempting to declare that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is imminent—or even already here. Public discourse increasingly frames AGI as… Continue reading
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Strategies for Gradual AGI
By W.H.L. with GPT-4o W.H.L.: Hi GPT! I’m told that OpenAI just released two open-source versions of GPT. Please tell me about them. GPT-4o: OpenAI has not open-sourced two new GPT models in the traditional sense of publishing training data—but as of August 5–6, 2025, they have released two open-weight models: gpt‑oss‑120b and gpt‑oss‑20b. These… Continue reading