{"id":13881,"date":"2025-07-18T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:18:48","slug":"most-researchers-do-not-believe-agi-is-imminent-why-do-policymakers-act-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/most-researchers-do-not-believe-agi-is-imminent-why-do-policymakers-act-otherwise\/13881\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise?"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published on\u00a0Tech Policy Press, March 19, 2025. AI research\u2014these days primarily driven by corporate interests\u2014often embraces strange priorities. Amidst multiple crises in public health, climate, and democracy, we could do better than synthetic image and text generation products and personalized chatbots as the defining technologies of our era. But the companies hyping these products tell us every improvement demonstrates progress toward an even stranger goal: artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The splashy announcement of any new model is cast as evidence of the inevitable trajectory toward machines that learn and act as humans do. New capabilities are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/most-researchers-do-not-believe-agi-is-imminent-why-do-policymakers-act-otherwise\/13881\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on\u00a0Tech Policy Press, March 19, 2025. AI research\u2014these days primarily driven by corporate interests\u2014often embraces strange priorities. Amidst multiple crises in public health, climate, and democracy, we could do better than synthetic image and text generation products and personalized chatbots as the defining technologies of our era. But the companies hyping these products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13882,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}