Joshua Achiam

artificial intelligence researcher

  1. Feels like AGI is kind of already here and most people have gone like shrug.
    Joshua Achiam · The a16z Show · OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI? · 2026-08-04
  2. The fact that we passed the threshold where unsolved mathematical conjectures are getting solved by extremely intelligent AI, where those AIs are more capable and smarter than people who studied their whole lives for this, that should have felt really weird to people, but it didn…
    Joshua Achiam · The a16z Show · OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI? · 2026-08-04
  3. Part of security mindset is saying, well, we haven't exhaustively ruled out the possibility that these things can be broken. And so we've got to build our defenses, assuming that it's possible for it to be broken.
    Joshua Achiam · The a16z Show · OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI? · 2026-08-04