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AGI has an assembly index. In assembly theory (Sharma, Czégel, Lachmann, Kempes, Walker & Cronin, Nature 2023), the assembly index a of an object is the minimum number of recursive joining operations required to construct it from a basis set of elementary parts, where each intermediate is reusable once formed. The framework was developed to distinguish biotic from abiotic matter: empirically, molecules with a ≳ 15 are not produced by undirected chemistry at detectable abundance, and their occ...