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

According to Goertzel's 2011 post, Mark Gubrud had used the term (in context, “Artificial General Intelligence”) in a 1997 article, which someone brought to Goertzel's attention a few years after the book title was chosen.

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Who coined the term “AGI”? → attributes to → Nanotechnology and International Security

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Who coined the term “AGI”?attributes to ↓Nanotechnology and International Security

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2011-08-28 · publication Records dated 2011 →
Kind of attribution: Attributes a term or concept to the work

Scope and limitsGoertzel's attributed statement; it does not name the article, which Selekoa identifies as Gubrud's 1997 Foresight paper by its year, author and subject. The post invites reports of earlier uses.

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Who coined the term “AGI”?

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

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Source excerpt

“had used the term in a 1997 article on the future of technology”

Location in source Paragraph beginning 'A few years later'

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

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.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The sentence's subject, in the same paragraph, is 'a Maryland researcher named Mark Gubrud'. The source role is primary for this record: the passage is the citing text’s own attribution, which is what the record states (corrected at admission; the pack had secondary, relative to the work credited). A cross-family machine check (30 October 2026, item 50) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review.

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