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

Goertzel's 2011 post uses 'AGI' for the field he and Pennachin named in their book title.

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Who coined the term “AGI”? → uses the name →

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Claim and evidence

Who coined the term “AGI”?uses the name ↓

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

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

Scope and limitsA later use; listed so that the account itself sits on the term's chronology.

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 post's title asks who coined the term 'AGI', and the post contrasts 'strong AI' with what Goertzel says he now refers to as AGI.

Location in source Title and paragraph beginning 'At the time Ray Kurzweil'

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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 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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Relation. A passage of the document uses a name for a family of methods or a term, in the sense the concept’s naming criterion describes or, where labelled, in another sense. The record documents the use; it is not evidence that the name began there, and it implies no influence on or from another text.

Date. Date of the post; the events it reports (about 2002 for the email exchange) are dated only by this account.

Record ID th-term-agi-goertzel-2011