Alan D. Thompson
Founder of LifeArchitect.ai and author of The Memo newsletter, tracking AGI and ASI development.
“The Memo features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast, and a trusted source says it is used by top brass at the White House”
“Given that virtually all science questions are now solved by frontier models, I cannot think of further unique text questions that would stump a frontier AI model…”
“I showed the GPT-6 launch video to around 600 government staff for my opening keynote on Friday morning Adelaide time”
“In plain English, no human is smart enough to guide superintelligence. So, putting a human in the loop to 'rate' multiple choices of an AI output and then choose the 'best' option is an inherently flawed process. — Dr. Alan D. Thompson (2023)”
Source→“significant enough that the author's AGI countdown was revised upward to 98%.”
Source→“My Models Table now tracks ~950 major model highlights from a worldwide count of roughly 390,000 text-generation models. July 2026 saw yet another new record: there was 1 model highlight announced about every ~18 hours.”
“I'm no political expert, and I don't pretend to be… given that this large language model suspension is a part of frontier AI history, let's provide some insight anyway.”
AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.