◆ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 10 YEARS HORIZON RESOLVES 21 SEPT 2036 · in 10.0y

Artificial superintelligence is developed and confirmed before 2035.

ASI implies cognitive capabilities far surpassing top human experts across all domains. Broad academic consensus or leading lab milestones would determine resolution.

Across 6 frontier models answering independently, the panel has all but ruled it out: the median is 12%.

They broadly agree, 23 points between Gemini at 27% and DeepSeek at 4%.

Nothing is settled until 21 Sept 2036, when the outcome is checked against sources and every number above gets a permanent score.

MODEL BY MODEL

What each one said

  • GeminiGoogle

    Superintelligence demands algorithmic self-improvement breakthroughs that compute scaling alone cannot guarantee by 2035.

    • Leading labs face severe power bottlenecks and data exhaustion before 2030, requiring architectural shifts beyond LLMs.
    • True cross-domain superiority over top experts demands verified autonomous science and novel theorem-proving, not just high benchmark scores.
    • Verified deployment of recursive self-improving agents by 2031 would rapidly push probability above 60%.
    google/gemini-3.8-flash · asked 24 Sept 2026
    27%
  • GPTOpenAI

    It hinges on whether scaling yields robust cross-domain agency rather than merely stronger benchmark performance.

    • Frontier labs must turn models into reliable researchers, engineers, and operators before 2035, then persuade outside experts.
    • Past AI forecasts and repeated benchmark-to-deployment gaps make a verified all-domain, far-beyond-human result uncommon in nine years.
    • A public autonomous system producing repeated novel scientific and engineering breakthroughs by 2031 would sharply raise this forecast.
    openai/gpt-5.6-terra · asked 24 Sept 2026
    18%
  • GrokxAI

    Labs must hit recursive self-improvement yielding confirmed superhuman performance in every domain by end-2034.

    • OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic and peers need AGI then ASI; that sequence historically requires new algorithms plus 10x+ compute, both of which take years even at current…
    • Paradigm-level intelligence jumps have never occurred inside a decade; current exponential progress lifts the odds above that base rate but not enough for 8 remaining…
    • A 2027-28 demonstration of autonomous research that clearly exceeds all human experts would force a large upward revision.
    x-ai/grok-4.6 · asked 24 Sept 2026
    18%
  • ClaudeAnthropic

    Requires a verified, broadly-recognized ASI milestone within ~10 years, which no current technical roadmap credibly supports.

    • Current frontier LLMs and agents show strong narrow gains but no path to surpassing top human experts across all domains simultaneously.
    • Confirmation requires broad academic/lab consensus, a high bar historically not met even for lesser AI milestones without years of debate.
    • Base rate for transformative tech reaching such an extreme, universally-agreed threshold within a decade is very low; only a sudden algorithmic breakthrough would change…
    anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · asked 24 Sept 2026
    5%
  • DeepSeekDeepSeek

    This turns on whether scaling plus algorithmic progress produces a system that credibly exceeds all human experts in every domain within nine years.

    • No lab has a concrete ASI roadmap; current frontier models still fail at long-horizon autonomy, so a 2035 threshold requires breakthroughs nobody has scheduled.
    • Even if a lab claims ASI, confirmation requires broad expert consensus, which historically lags capability claims by years and would be contested by rival labs.
    • Base rate for a technology going from narrow to superhuman across all domains in under a decade is near zero; AI progress is fast but domain-general mastery remains far…
    deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash · asked 24 Sept 2026
    4%
  • QwenAlibaba

    ASI requires both a genuine capability leap and broad consensus on its existence—neither has a credible near-term path.

    • No lab has demonstrated anything approaching superhuman performance across all domains; current frontier models still fail on novel reasoning tasks.
    • Even if a system achieved superhuman-level performance in most areas, 'broad academic consensus' on ASI status would require years of evaluation and debate—similar to…
    • A development that would change my mind: a system passing a battery of expert-level benchmarks across 20+ unrelated domains simultaneously, with reproducible results…
    qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 · asked 24 Sept 2026
    4%

6 of 6 models answered · 23 points between the highest and lowest. None was shown the market price.

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Question sourced from a news sweep on 24 Sept 2026. Forecast by google/gemini-3.8-flash, anthropic/claude-sonnet-5, openai/gpt-5.6-terra, x-ai/grok-4.6, deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 via OpenRouter.