Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly estimates powerful AI --- defined as a system smarter than a Nobel laureate across most fields, with full virtual-work interfaces, multi-day autonomous task execution, and millions of 10-100x-human-speed instances --- could arrive as early as 2026.

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• SMachines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better primary_testimony
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  0.90

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  “I think it could come as early as 2026, though there are also ways it could take much longer.”

• SMachines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better primary_testimony
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  locator: Basic assumptions and framework, bulleted definition

  “We could summarize this as a 'country of geniuses in a datacenter'.”