A symbolic clock for our proximity to Artificial General Intelligence. Midnight marks the point when machines can perform human-level cognition across domains.
Maintained by Edyant Labs
Key developments in AI that move the hands toward midnight.
You can contriubute to this timeline at github.com/edyant/countdown_to_agi.
Signals that shift the clock toward midnight.
How many domains AI can handle at a human level. As breadth grows, generality grows.
The ability to set goals, plan, and act in complex environments without step-by-step instruction.
The speed of learning and transfer to new tasks and settings.
Direct connection to the physical world through sensors and robotics.
New abilities that appear with scale or architectural shifts.
Power must come with trustworthiness, transparency, and alignment with human values.
The clock is a signal, not a prediction. Like the Doomsday Clock, it calls for careful governance,
honest debate, and real preparation.
At Edyant, we focus on the social and ethical foundations so that
progress toward AGI is matched by responsibility.
If we reach midnight, we should arrive ready.