Claim · 2011-08-28 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Ben Goertzel is the author named on the post 'Who coined the term “AGI”?' (2011-08-28).

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Ben Goertzel → authored → Who coined the term “AGI”?

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Claim and evidence

Ben Goertzelauthored ↓Who coined the term “AGI”?

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2011-08-28 · publication Records dated 2011 →

Scope and limitsByline on the author's site.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Who coined the term “AGI”?

goertzel.org (author's site) · 2011-08-28

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Paraphrase

The byline under the title reads 'Ben Goertzel' followed by the date.

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Ben Goertzel
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 26b1b2848b4541c590b770b343fc121a045afdbf9504e0c895d9eb65d9dc7a3b). Post as currently served on the author's site, dated August 28th, 2011 in its byline; the site marks older material as 'Archived Site (Pre 2021)', so the post may have been migrated. This retrieval was not compared with an archive capture.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ben Goertzel, “Who coined the term “AGI”?”, 2011-08-28.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. No human editorial review.

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Record ID th-authored-goertzel-2011