We are living through a moment that will be in history for thousands of years: nonhuman intelligence arrived.
Predictor: Eric Schmidt · ep#232 "Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232" · source
Prediction text
We are living through a moment that will be in history for thousands of years: nonhuman intelligence arrived. | we are living through a moment that will be in history for thousands of years and nonhuman intelligence arrived and it was a competitor to us.
Verbatim quote
we are living through a moment that will be in history for thousands of years and nonhuman intelligence arrived and it was a competitor to us.
Predictor: Eric Schmidt
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
- 2025-06-30hitAI agents perform multi-step tasks autonomously in productionHow: At least 3 major frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) ship production-grade agent products that complete hours-long tasks (Operator, Computer Use, Project Astra, etc.)Source: Vendor product announcements; Anthropic Computer Use, OpenAI Operator, Google Project Marinerconf 95%Notes: HIT — Computer Use (Oct 2024), Operator (Jan 2025), Mariner (Dec 2024) all shipped.
- 2026-01-31hitPublic discourse on AGI/transformative AI reaches mainstreamHow: Sustained mainstream media coverage (NYT/WSJ/Economist front-page) of AGI/transformative AI ≥1x/month for 12+ months; Pew/Gallup polling shows >50% Americans aware of AGI debateSource: Major newspaper archives; Pew Research polling on AI awarenessconf 90%Notes: HIT — Continuous front-page coverage 2024-2026; Schmidt-Diamandis-Altman public commentary normalized AGI discussion.
- 2025-12-31hitFrontier AI models cross PhD-level benchmarks (GPT-5, Claude 4 series, Gemini 2.5)How: Major frontier models score ≥90% on graduate-level reasoning benchmarks (GPQA, MMLU-Pro, MATH-500), demonstrating expert-level capability across domainsSource: OpenAI/Anthropic/Google model release notes and benchmarks; widely covered in AI pressconf 85%Notes: HIT — GPT-5 (Aug 2025), Claude Opus 4 series, and Gemini 2.5 all crossed expert benchmarks.
- 2025-08-11hitSovereign AI compute treated as critical infrastructure (national security framing)How: Major nation-state (US, EU, UK, China, India, Saudi) formally classifies AI compute as critical infrastructure with associated funding and export-control regimesSource: US CHIPS Act, UK AI Safety Institute, EU AI Act, China's AI development plansconf 85%Notes: HIT — Trump-Nvidia 15% deal (Aug 2025) is exemplar of national-security framing of AI chips. EU AI Act in force 2024.
- 2026-06-01 → 2027-12-31pendingFirst academic discipline declares ML/AI research output dominant over human authorshipHow: Major academic field (math, ML, theoretical physics) publishes peer-reviewed analysis showing AI-co-authored or AI-generated papers exceed pure-human papers in citation impactSource: Nature, Science, arXiv meta-studiesconf 40%Notes: Cascade — Math papers using AI assistance already common; tipping point unknown.
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Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 234_012 Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 202 — Peter Diamandis | 67.1% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.099 |
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.061 |
| prereq | SEM_012 Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling — Jensen Huang | 75.0% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.052 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.650 | +0.042 |
| prereq | SEM_008 Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will co — Dario Amodei | 76.9% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.041 |
Top outgoing (children)
Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 232_055 We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive se — Peter Diamandis | 35.5% | 0.700 | 0.050 | +0.045 |
| prereq | 235_030 Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203 — Ray Kurzweil | 39.2% | 0.750 | 0.050 | +0.035 |
| prereq | 241_043 ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decad — Peter Diamandis | 35.9% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.015 |
| prereq | CMQ_002 By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' leve — Sam Altman | 31.4% | 0.550 | 0.050 | +0.006 |
| prereq | 231_013 Math is cooked (will be solved), physics cooked, biology cha — Alex Wissner-Gross | 35.4% | 0.620 | 0.050 | +0.003 |
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Adverse (6)
Prerequisites (8)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 238_009 | Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out) | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 232_055 | We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive self-improvement unfolds. | AI | — |
| prereq | 241_043 | ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decade | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_013 | Math is cooked (will be solved), physics cooked, biology char broiled. | AI | — |
| prereq | CMQ_002 | By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' level — driving autonomous scientific discoveries without human intervention. | AI | — |
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