Dario states that artificial general intelligence, or "powerful AI," is expected to arrive in 2028. In his earlier work, he defined "powerful AI" as a system surpassing human experts in most important fields, capable of independent reasoning, creativity, coding, research, and autonomous digital action.

He also described the concept of "a country of geniuses in a datacenter" as millions of advanced AI agents operating simultaneously. These agents would work much faster than people, collaborating at a level comparable to a nation of Nobel-caliber minds within computational infrastructure.

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