Artificial General Intelligence Could Arrive Within a Year, Researcher Says
IBM, Friday, August 14th, 2026
IBM Think interviews Ben Goertzel, who argues AGI could arrive within nine to 12 months.
IBM Think interviews Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET and chair of the AGI Society, who argues that artificial general intelligence could arrive within nine to 12 months.
Goertzel is a long-standing figure in the AGI field and the piece explores what he believes such a system would actually look like in practice.
The interview covers his reasoning for the aggressive timeline and what the transition would mean. It is presented as a Think News question-and-answer rather than an IBM product or research announcement.