And if artificial general intelligence (AGI) had already been created, but had not changed the world as prophesied, according to Sam Altman CEO of Open AI, that possibility not only exists, but may have happened before our eyes. On a recent episode of the Big Technology Podcast, Sam Altman posed a puzzling hypothesis.

Perhaps AGI, the long-awaited artificial general intelligence, has already been achieved, but it went unnoticed because its social impact was much less than what everyone expected, the problem begins at the base, there was never a clear and agreed definition of what exactly that AGI is. The term became a buzzword in Silicon Valley, used differently by each executive, investor or laboratory, yet the most accepted definition AGI describes human cognitive abilities in multiple areas, something that in theory should radically transform society.

Sam Altman proposes something almost erotic in the technological debate, for him, perhaps it is time to accept that AGI simply happened. It did not cause social collapse, it did not create utopias, it did not replace governments, it can exist and the world moved on. according to Sam Altman, the new focus now would be super intelligence. systems capable of performing better than any human being, even assisted by AI. Roles as president of a country, CEO of a mega corporation or scientist leading a large laboratory.

This statement comes at a curious time, with both Sam Altman and Setia Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, recently signaling a slowdown in the race for AGI. Setia Nadella talks about real practical and economic impact, Sam Altman instead points towards something more disturbing. Systems capable of being improved and even replicated, all this happens while Open AI, Google Anthropic, Microsoft and Deepsek invest billions in a race whose goal may have already been achieved or may never have been well defined.

If the AGI really already exists and did not change the world, the problem was never the technology, but our expectations, perhaps we were expecting an event when in reality the transformation came silently, integrated into everyday life, diluted in invisible products, algorithms and decisions, if the AGI has already passed without fanfare, how many other revolutions are we experiencing without realizing it? And even more disturbing, when something really changes everything, will we be able to recognize it or will we only perceive it when it is too late?