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JH
Aug 27, 2025
Nvidia Q2 FY2026 earnings call (closing remarks)

Our Blackwell and Rubin AI factory platforms will be scaling into the $3 trillion to $4 trillion global AI factory build out through the end of the decade.

Claim: Global AI infrastructure spending will reach $3 to $4 trillion by the end of 2030.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2030 (our reading)
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Sam Altman
Jun 10, 2025
Sam Altman's blog, "The Gentle Singularity"

2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights. 2027 may see the arrival of robots that can do tasks in the real world.

Claim: In 2027 robots will arrive that can do tasks in the real world.

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Sam Altman
Jun 10, 2025
Sam Altman's blog, "The Gentle Singularity"

2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights. 2027 may see the arrival of robots that can do tasks in the real world.

Claim: In 2026 AI systems will arrive that can figure out novel insights.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2026
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Demis Hassabis
Apr 20, 2025
60 Minutes, CBS News (asked when AGI will arrive)

In the next five to ten years, I think.

Claim: Artificial general intelligence will arrive between 2030 and 2035.

OPENdue Apr 20, 2035 (our reading)
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Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 3, 2025
AI 2027, AI Futures Project (co-authored with Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland and Romeo Dean)

Aided by the new capabilities breakthroughs, Agent-3 is a fast and cheap superhuman coder.

Claim: An AI system will reach 'superhuman coder' capability by March 2027.

OPENdue Mar 31, 2027
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Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 3, 2025
AI 2027, AI Futures Project

Over the course of 2027, the AIs improve from being able to mostly do the job of an OpenBrain research engineer to eclipsing all humans at all tasks.

Claim: By the end of 2027 AI systems will eclipse all humans at all cognitive tasks.

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Demis Hassabis
Apr 1, 2025
Possible, with Reid Hoffman

I think maybe in the next 10, 15 years we can actually have a real crack at solving all disease.

Claim: AI will enable a real attempt at solving all disease by 2040.

OPENdue Apr 30, 2040 (our reading)
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Dario Amodei
Mar 10, 2025
Council on Foreign Relations (reported by Business Insider) · hindsight clip

If I look at coding, programming, which is one area where AI is making the most progress, what we are finding is we are not far from the world—I think we'll be there in three to six months—where AI is writing 90 percent of the code. And then in twelve months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code.

Claim: AI will be writing essentially all code within twelve months, by March 2026.

DUEoverdue since Mar 10, 2026 (our reading)
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Dario Amodei
Mar 10, 2025
Council on Foreign Relations (reported by Business Insider) · hindsight clip

If I look at coding, programming, which is one area where AI is making the most progress, what we are finding is we are not far from the world—I think we'll be there in three to six months—where AI is writing 90 percent of the code. And then in twelve months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code.

Claim: AI will be writing 90 percent of code within three to six months, by September 2025.

DUEoverdue since Sep 10, 2025 (our reading)
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Elon Musk
Jan 29, 2025
Tesla Q4 2024 earnings call · hindsight clip

We're going to be launching unsupervised full self-driving as a paid service in Austin in June.

Claim: Tesla will launch unsupervised Full Self-Driving as a paid service in Austin in June 2025.

DUEoverdue since Jun 30, 2025 (our reading)
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Yann LeCun
Jan 23, 2025
World Economic Forum, Davos (reported by TechCrunch)

I think the shelf life of the current paradigm is fairly short, probably three to five years.

Claim: The current large language model paradigm will be superseded as the core of frontier AI systems by 2030.

OPENdue Jan 23, 2030 (our reading)
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MZ
Jan 10, 2025
The Joe Rogan Experience (reported by Business Insider) · hindsight clip

Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code.

Claim: In 2025 Meta will have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer writing code.

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Sam Altman
Jan 6, 2025
Sam Altman's blog, "Reflections" · hindsight clip

We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents "join the workforce" and materially change the output of companies.

Claim: In 2025 AI agents will join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2025
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Gary Marcus
Dec 30, 2024
Marcus on AI

If there exist AI systems that can perform 8 of the 10 tasks below by the end of 2027, as determined by our panel of judges, Gary will donate $2,000 to a charity of Miles' choice; if AI can do fewer than 8, Miles will donate $20,000 to a charity of Gary's choice.

Claim: By the end of 2027 AI will be able to do fewer than 8 of Marcus's 10 tasks (watching a novel film and answering questions, reading a novel, writing a Pulitzer-calibre book, writing bug-free code of 10,000+ lines, and so on).

OPENdue Dec 31, 2027
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Yann LeCun
Oct 16, 2024
Hudson Forum (reported by TechCrunch)

It's going to take years before we can get everything here to work, if not a decade.

Claim: Human-level AI will not be achieved before 2028.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2027 (our reading)
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Dario Amodei
Oct 11, 2024
Machines of Loving Grace

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

Claim: Powerful AI, a 'country of geniuses in a data center', will exist by the end of 2026.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2026
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Elon Musk
Sep 7, 2024
X

The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years.

Claim: SpaceX will fly the first crewed Starship to Mars in the 2028-2029 transfer window.

OPENdue Jun 30, 2029 (our reading)
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Elon Musk
Sep 7, 2024
X

The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years.

Claim: SpaceX will launch uncrewed Starships toward Mars in the late-2026 Earth-Mars transfer window.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2026 (our reading)
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MZ
Jul 23, 2024
Meta, "Open Source AI Is the Path Forward" · hindsight clip

Starting next year, we expect future Llama models to become the most advanced in the industry.

Claim: From 2025, Llama models will be the most advanced AI models in the industry.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2025 (our reading)
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RK
Jun 14, 2024
Science Friday

In 1999, I predicted by 2029, we'd reach the Turing test and also AGI, where basically a computer can do anything a human can do.

Claim: By 2029 AI will reach AGI, able to do anything a human can do intellectually.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2029
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RK
Jun 14, 2024
Science Friday

In 1999, I predicted by 2029, we'd reach the Turing test and also AGI, where basically a computer can do anything a human can do.

Claim: A computer will pass the Turing test by the end of 2029.

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Leopold Aschenbrenner
Jun 4, 2024
Situational Awareness

We're on the path to individual training clusters costing $100s of billions by 2028—clusters requiring power equivalent to a small/medium US state and more expensive than the International Space Station.

Claim: By 2028 a single AI training cluster will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and draw power comparable to a small US state.

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Leopold Aschenbrenner
Jun 4, 2024
Situational Awareness

I make the following claim: it is strikingly plausible that by 2027, models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher/engineer.

Claim: By 2027 AI models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher or engineer.

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Elon Musk
Mar 12, 2024
X

AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.

Claim: AI will be smarter than all humans combined by the end of 2029.

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Elon Musk
Mar 12, 2024
X · hindsight clip

AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.

Claim: AI will be smarter than any single human by the end of 2025.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2025 (our reading)
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JH
Mar 1, 2024
Reuters, reporting Huang's talk at the Stanford SIEPR Economic Summit

If I gave an AI ... every single test that you can possibly imagine, you make that list of tests and put it in front of the computer science industry, and I'm guessing in five years time, we'll do well on every single one.

Claim: Within five years, by March 2029, AI will do well on every test a human can take.

OPENdue Mar 1, 2029 (our reading)
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Shane Legg
Oct 26, 2023
Dwarkesh Podcast

I think there's a 50% chance that we have AGI by 2028. Now, it's just a 50% chance.

Claim: AGI will exist by the end of 2028.

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Ilya Sutskever
Jul 5, 2023
OpenAI, "Introducing Superalignment" (co-led by Sutskever)

Our goal is to solve the core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment in four years.

Claim: The core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment will be solved by July 2027.

OPENdue Jul 5, 2027 (our reading)
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Geoffrey Hinton
May 3, 2023
X

I now predict 5 to 20 years but without much confidence. We live in very uncertain times. It's possible that I am totally wrong about digital intelligence overtaking us. Nobody really knows which is why we should worry now.

Claim: Digital intelligence will overtake human intelligence between 2028 and 2043.

OPENdue May 3, 2043 (our reading)
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Gary Marcus
Apr 8, 2023
Marcus on AI · hindsight clip

A safe bet is that GPT-5 will be a lot like GPT-4, and do the same kinds of things and have the same kinds of flaws, but be somewhat better.

Claim: GPT-5 will be a lot like GPT-4, with the same kinds of flaws, only somewhat better.

DUEoverdue since Aug 7, 2025 (our reading)
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Michael Burry
Jan 31, 2023
X (tweet since deleted, quoted by CNBC) · hindsight clip

Sell.

Claim: US stocks will fall from their 31 January 2023 level over the following year.

DUEoverdue since Jan 31, 2024 (our reading)
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Elon Musk
Jan 26, 2022
Tesla Q4 2021 earnings call · hindsight clip

I would be shocked if we do not achieve Full Self-Driving safer than human this year. I would be shocked.

Claim: Tesla will achieve Full Self-Driving that is safer than a human driver by the end of 2022.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2022 (our reading)
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Cathie Wood
Sep 13, 2021
CNBC, SALT Conference (reported by Bitcoin Magazine) · hindsight clip

If we're right and companies continue to diversify their cash into something like Bitcoin, and institutional investors start allocating 5% of their funds in Bitcoin […] we believe the price will be ten-fold what it is today. Instead of $45,000, over $500,000.

Claim: Bitcoin will trade above $500,000 within five years of September 2021.

DUEoverdue since Sep 13, 2026 (our reading)
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Daniel Kokotajlo
Aug 6, 2021
AI Alignment Forum

The age of the AI assistant has finally dawned.

Claim: By 2026 general-purpose AI assistants will be in mainstream everyday use.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2026 (our reading)
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Michael Burry
Jun 15, 2021
X (tweet since deleted, quoted by The Motley Fool) · hindsight clip

People always ask me what is going on in the markets. It is simple. Greatest Speculative Bubble of All Time in All Things. By two orders of magnitude. #FlyingPigs360

Claim: Markets in mid-2021 are the greatest speculative bubble of all time and will suffer a historic crash across asset classes.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2022 (our reading)
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Elon Musk
Apr 22, 2019
Tesla Autonomy Day · hindsight clip

I feel very confident predicting autonomous robotaxis for Tesla next year. Not in all jurisdictions, because we won't have regulatory approval everywhere, but I'm confident we'll have at least regulatory approval somewhere, literally next year.

Claim: Tesla will operate autonomous robotaxis with regulatory approval in at least one jurisdiction by the end of 2020.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2020 (our reading)
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Cathie Wood
Aug 8, 2018
Bloomberg TV · hindsight clip

We've been very focused on his autonomous taxi network opportunity, which we think could take the stock to $4,000. This is over the next five years. We could see Tesla going to $4,000.

Claim: Tesla stock will reach $4,000 per share (pre-split) within five years of August 2018.

DUEoverdue since Aug 8, 2023
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 17, 2017
EconLog (bet terms written by Yudkowsky, published by Bryan Caplan)

Bryan Caplan pays Eliezer $100 now, in exchange for $200 CPI-adjusted from Eliezer if the world has not been ended by nonaligned AI before 12:00am GMT on January 1st, 2030.

Claim: The world will be ended by nonaligned AI before 1 January 2030.

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Geoffrey Hinton
Nov 24, 2016
Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence, Creative Destruction Lab, Toronto · hindsight clip

People should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists, because it's going to be able to get a lot more experience.

Claim: Deep learning will outperform human radiologists within five years, by late 2021.

DUEoverdue since Nov 30, 2021 (our reading)
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Paul Krugman
Nov 9, 2016
The New York Times (election-night blog) · hindsight clip

If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

Claim: US stock markets will not recover from the drop on Trump's election night within a year.

DUEoverdue since Nov 8, 2017 (our reading)
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Nate Silver
Nov 8, 2016
FiveThirtyEight · hindsight clip

Clinton is a 71 percent favorite to win the election according to our polls-only model and a 72 percent favorite according to our polls-plus model.

Claim: Hillary Clinton will win the 2016 United States presidential election.

DUEoverdue since Nov 8, 2016
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Bill Gates
Mar 18, 2015
TED

If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.

Claim: A highly infectious virus, not a war, will be the next thing to kill more than 10 million people worldwide.

OPENdue Mar 18, 2045 (our reading)
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Shane Legg
Dec 31, 2011
Q&A with Shane Legg on risks from AI (LessWrong)

I give it a log-normal distribution with a mean of 2028 and a mode of 2025, under the assumption that nothing crazy happens like a nuclear war.

Claim: Human-level AGI will arrive by 2028.

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HC
Jan 3, 2011
NBC News · hindsight clip

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment.

Claim: The Rapture and the day of judgment will occur on May 21, 2011.

DUEoverdue since May 21, 2011
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Jim Cramer
Mar 11, 2008
CNBC Mad Money · hindsight clip

No! No! No! Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out. Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear! That's just being silly! Don't be silly!

Claim: Bear Stearns is not in trouble and customers' money there is safe.

DUEoverdue since Jun 30, 2008 (our reading)
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WB
Dec 19, 2007
Long Bets · hindsight clip

Over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2017, the S&P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses.

Claim: An S&P 500 index fund will beat a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, net of fees, over 2008 to 2017.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2017
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SB
Apr 30, 2007
USA Today CEO Forum · hindsight clip

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item.

Claim: The iPhone will not gain significant market share in mobile phones.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 2012 (our reading)
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RK
Sep 22, 2005
The Singularity Is Near (Viking, 2005)

I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045.

Claim: The Singularity, a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability driven by machine intelligence, will occur by 2045.

OPENdue Dec 31, 2045
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HC
Sep 1, 1992
1994? (Vantage Press, 1992) · hindsight clip

When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.

Claim: The end of the world will come on September 6, 1994.

DUEoverdue since Sep 6, 1994
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Paul Ehrlich
May 1, 1968
The Population Bomb (Ballantine Books, 1968) · hindsight clip

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.

Claim: Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death during the 1970s.

DUEoverdue since Dec 31, 1979
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