With a caveat · AGI
Sam Altman on AGI
Said
“I think a lot of people would say AGI happened or is close to happening.”
Asked about AI terminology in a POLITICO Decoded interview with Brendan Bordelon, Altman described what others might consider AGI's arrival while leaving open whether it was only near. He supplied no arrival deadline or model-specific claim. The wording comes from a third-party transcript; the original recording has not been independently verified.
Source notes
CEOInterviews.AI attributes the excerpt at 3:44 to Sam Altman and lists October 5, 2026 as the interview's publication date. That listed publication date is used here; the recording date is not established. The transcript links to POLITICO's YouTube video at 224 seconds. The original video could not be independently checked, so this is transcript-based evidence rather than primary-recording verification.