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Bostrom says the surprise is how long the human-level era has lasted

development2026-04-27

Claim

Nick Bostrom said what surprised him most is this extended era of roughly human-level AI, which has already stretched three to five years and may stretch further, while Demis Hassabis moved from saying AGI needed one or two more breakthroughs to calling it a coin flip whether any are needed.

Reporting date: 2026-04-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to April 27, 2026

Actor

Demis Hassabis

Evidence for

Practitioners start saying it out loud

Supersedes

AGI is demoted from prophecy to a point on a release calendar

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Welcome to April 27, 2026

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Bostrom says the surprise is how long the human-level era has lasted
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Reporting date: 2026-04-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-27-bostrom-on-the-long-human-level-era
Claim: Nick Bostrom said what surprised him most is this extended era of roughly human-level AI, which has already stretched three to five years and may stretch further, while Demis Hassabis moved from saying AGI needed one or two more breakthroughs to calling it a coin flip whether any are needed.
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- Welcome to April 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-27-2026
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