OpenAI's president puts the distance to AGI at eighty percent

Claim

Greg Brockman estimated we are about 80% of the way to AGI, while Sam Altman conceded that despite the temptation of cheaper and faster, smarter remains the most important thing, warning users to prepare for their lives to change after GPT-5.5.

Reported metric: 80%

Reporting date: 2026-05-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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