MissedcapabilitiesAI smarter than any one human probably around the end of 2025
Missed · called by Dec 2025
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Broad cognitive capability vs. the single most capable humanunknown — pending a formal grade; frontier models lead on many benchmarks but no accepted demonstration of exceeding the smartest human across domains
Verified blind: GLM-5.2 + Grok — agree
How it's graded
Met if, by end of 2025, a deployed AI system demonstrably exceeds the most capable individual human across the breadth of cognitive tasks (not just benchmarks); failed if leading systems remain below top human experts in substantial domains
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“My guess is that we’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year,” Musk said in a livestreamed interview on his social network X.
The Guardian archived↗context · not model-verified · 2024-04-09
best AI agents are not currently able to carry out substantive projects by themselves or directly substitute for human labor.
METR — Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks archived↗ · 2025-03-19
Pure LLMs score 0% on ARC-AGI-2
ARC Prize — ARC-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025 archived↗ · 2025-03-24
Ledger history
- 2026-07-05: Target date 2025-12 is past. The claim required AI to exceed the most capable human across the breadth of cognitive tasks by end of 2025. Two recognized-domain measurements show this did not occur…