Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video was made with financial support from the Center for AI Safety.

What happens when we build systems so efficiently that even the smartest people can’t slow them down when they spiral out of control? What happens when something designed with good intentions follows those intentions to their logical extreme, even when it starts working against us?

And more importantly, what happens when these systems stop being tools and start becoming something else, with their own wills and desires? Because what we saw in 2010 wasn’t AGI, not even close, it was just the very first level, and what’s to come is far more terrifying.

00:00 Every Level of AGI Explained
03:17 Level 1 - Machine Learning
08:44 Level 2 - Large Language Models (LLMs)
13:59 Level 3 - Agentic AI
18:02 The Pillar of Economy
19:48 The Pillar of Culture
22:28 The Pillar of State
27:51 Level 4 - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
32:46 Level 5 - Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)

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