Proof of AGI is the impossibility of evals (opens in new tab)

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Mark Pesce · University of Sydney · June 2026 tl;dr The failure of AI evaluations is itself the proof of the existence of AGI. AI evals are becoming intractable for the same reasons that measuring human general intelligence has been intractable for 150 years: the constructs resist decomposition, the benchmarks saturate,

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