Sam Altman's definition of AGI varies: curing cancer/climate change/poverty to Congress, an amazing digital assistant to consumers, generating $100 billion in revenue to Microsoft, and highly autonomous systems outperforming humans in economically valuable work on OpenAI's website.

“This claim is a mix of accurate and inaccurate characterizations. OpenAI's charter does define AGI as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” Altman has also publicly discussed AI's potential to solve major challenges like curing diseases. However, the claim about Microsoft is misleading. Reports indicate an internal agreement defines AGI as the point OpenAI develops a system capable of generating $100 billion in *profits*, not revenue, which has significant contractual implications for Microsoft's access to future technology. The other descriptions are plausible summaries of his messaging to different audiences. Context: The various descriptions of AGI are not necessarily formal, competing definitions but rather different ways of framing the technology's potential impact for different audiences (e.g., policymakers, investors, the public). The $100 billion profit figure for Microsoft is reportedly a specific contractual trigger for when a system is deemed 'AGI', which would alter the terms of their partnership.”