AGI.

Plan your business and your life on AGI this decade, not on the hype and not on the denial. The routine layer of every job goes first, the buildout hits energy and chips before it hits you, and the winners own data, distribution and trust. Assume the machine arrives and price your decisions accordingly.

Yes, sooner. Every serious AGI forecaster who updated in early 2026 moved their date earlier, and the prediction markets, Metaculus, Polymarket and Kalshi, all price AGI inside this decade. Even the safety researchers warning of catastrophic risk plan on that horizon.

The combined 2026 AI infrastructure spending planned by Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta and their peers, a sprint with no historical precedent, with China answering through DeepSeek and $50 billion and beyond. That capital buys chips, data centers and energy for a machine the buyers expect to arrive this decade.

AGI is AI that performs most intellectual tasks at or above human level. I call it the most disruptive technology in human history because it hits every industry, profession, and institution at once. Past breakthroughs upgraded single sectors. AGI upgrades cognition itself. It does not just change what we build. It changes who, and what, does the thinking. My forecast: AGI before 2030. Follow the money, not the CEOs: the hyperscalers plan $700 billion of AI spending in 2026 alone. Nobody bets that kind of capital on a maybe. The buildout is the timeline. Since 29 September 2026 the White House and the Big Tech bros call all of this "Super Intelligence" (SI). The name changed. The timeline did not.

AGI gives small teams capabilities that once demanded entire organizations. I predict creation democratizes while competition turns savage as content saturates every channel. When anyone can generate anything, the scarce resources become taste, distribution, and a name people trust. The tool is free. The judgment is not. So own your IP, your fans, and your media: a feed is a rented room, a brand on a shelf is a house. I run the experiment myself, 55,000 misfits owned direct, zero agency. That is where your value, and your brand, will live.

Yes. AGI does not just raise productivity. It changes who creates knowledge. I predict machines will redesign entire industries as they absorb complex cognitive work. Strategy, research, and decisions stop being exclusively human. The winners rebuild around human-plus-machine intelligence instead of bolting AI onto old structures. Half measures lose. Reinvention wins. This is not a drill.

The "AGI by 2025" crowd whose products still cannot reliably add a column in a spreadsheet. Those timelines pump stock, not science. The real curve is fast, but it is not their marketing curve. I grade the spend, not the keynote. On 29 September 2026, Trump and his Big Tech bros decided to call AI Super Intelligence (SI).

Before 2030: machines matching human reasoning across the board. Not because the CEOs say so, because of what they spend. The hyperscalers plan $700 billion of AI capex for 2026 alone, and nobody bets that on a maybe. The buildout is the timeline.

Authenticity, verification, and reputation become the most valuable assets in media, business, and society. I frame the real battle as trust versus uncertainty, not AI versus humans. When anyone can generate any image, voice, or document, power flows to the people and institutions that can prove what is real. Earned credibility becomes the ultimate moat. In a world drowning in deepfakes and AI slop, the human voice is the 1 thing the machines cannot counterfeit. The cure is ancient: a real human, on the record.

ASI is intelligence that surpasses the best human minds in nearly every field. I treat it as a civilization-level event, not a product launch. It could transform science, medicine, economics, and governance while raising control questions humanity has never faced. ASI is the line where the tool out-thinks the toolmaker. Cross it wide awake. Do not confuse ASI with the White House label. Since 29 September 2026 the US government and the Big Tech CEOs call plain AI "Super Intelligence" (SI). A rebrand is not a breakthrough. My forecast: ASI between 2030 and 2040. And my doctrine does not change at the line: the only thing that controls technology is us, the people. I fear people, not technology.

No, it is the opposite. Sam Altman's AGI in 2027, Zuckerberg's metaverse, Musk's robotaxis "next year" every year since 2019: those are share-price defense systems with a keynote attached. I have no stock to pump and no book to sell. My 2050 call is dated, numbered, and sits on a public scoreboard where anyone can grade it.

I keynote on AI, AGI, robotics, the space economy, the future of work, marketing and media disruption, Tech for Good, and my Mad Men vs. Math Men vs. Machines framework. Every talk is tailored to your audience and industry. The through-line never changes: where the world is heading next, and what to do about it before your competitors move.