# Contested concept: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: The disagreement over the definition of AGI masks a deeper uncertainty about whether the 'threat' of AI is its superhuman intelligence (an existential or philosophical concern) or its mere cost-effectiveness in the labor market (an economic concern).
- **Canonical**: `/concept/Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)` (data: `/concept/Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).json`)

## Senses in use
- **A system characterized by its practical economic capacity to substitute for a significant portion of human labor.** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **A system defined by achieving performance levels exceeding human capabilities across all cognitive domains.** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **A technology defined by its qualitative shift from augmenting labor to replacing cognitive functions.** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a technology capable of exceeding human performance across virtually all cognitive domains.](/claim/claim_0ff68bf000ea.md) _(sense: A system defined by achieving performance levels exceeding human capabilities across all cognitive domains.)_
- [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is fundamentally distinct from previous technologies due to its capacity to exceed human performance …](/claim/claim_1c24d5471eeb.md) _(sense: A technology defined by its qualitative shift from augmenting labor to replacing cognitive functions.)_
- [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems with the capability to directly replace a significant portion of human labor are expected to …](/claim/claim_75b916254552.md) _(sense: A system characterized by its practical economic capacity to substitute for a significant portion of human labor.)_
- [The development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) implies that human intelligence will no longer be a unique phenomenon in the world.](/claim/claim_981076a4f039.md) _(sense: A system defined by achieving performance levels exceeding human capabilities across all cognitive domains.)_
- [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems have the potential to substitute for human workers entirely across a vast number of diverse p…](/claim/claim_ae1282f22aae.md) _(sense: A system characterized by its practical economic capacity to substitute for a significant portion of human labor.)_
- [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) represents a category of technology fundamentally different from previous historical tools because it…](/claim/claim_c0e49fc3a106.md) _(sense: A technology defined by its qualitative shift from augmenting labor to replacing cognitive functions.)_