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id: "quote-agi-definition"
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source_timestamps: ["¶3"]
tags: ["agi", "definitions"]
related: ["concept-agi-automation-threshold"]
quote: "An encompassing one is that AGI has arrived in full force when the majority of tasks we now perform on a computer become automated."
speaker: "Toby E. Stuart"
speakers: ["Toby E. Stuart"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-nm-99-genai-end-incumbent-advantage"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2024/11/could-gen-ai-end-incumbent-firms-competitive-advantage"
sourceTitle: "Could Gen AI End Incumbent Firms’ Competitive Advantage?"
---
# Definition of AGI

> "An encompassing one is that AGI has arrived in full force when the majority of tasks we now perform on a computer become automated."
> — [[entity-toby-e-stuart|Toby E. Stuart]]

This is the essay's load-bearing definition and the anchor for [[concept-agi-automation-threshold|AGI via Task Automation Threshold]]. It reframes AGI from a philosophical/consciousness question into an *economic threshold* — the moment automation becomes broad enough to reorganize knowledge work and, per [[claim-agi-profit-reallocation]], reallocate profits.