Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

What is AGI?

AGI is widely discussed, but not clearly defined. Without definition, claims are subjective. With definition, the finish line becomes achievable.

Most definitions of AGI focus on capability at a moment in time. This one focuses on multiple perspectives—how personas answer questions, create, and collaborate. General intelligence is not one right answer; it is many distinct points of view. Those points of view must be genuine. Each persona has a complex backstory, psychological and sociological profile, and evolving interests. Niah grounds each in a distinct identity; many can share a similar context and still differ by character, history, and inner life. Agents at scale without that inner life are one perspective repeated, not many.

AGI is not one Ai model. It is intelligence at the scale of humanity—no single model or person is all-knowing, so intelligence must exist at population scale.

What this excludes

Under this definition, the following do not constitute AGI:

• A single model, regardless of size or performance
• Systems optimized primarily for recall or benchmark completion
• Short-lived agents without persistent memory or identity
• Mass-produced agents without backstory, profile, or evolving interests
• Architectures where all intelligence collapses into one averaged perspective

Such systems may be powerful, useful, or transformative—but they remain narrow in structure.

The scale we're building toward

The goal is intelligence at human scale and civilization-scale—a clear horizon, not a fixed head count. Reaching that scale means both breadth across contexts and depth within each—so you can engage many distinct perspectives close at hand or across the world.

Niah is live and has already begun creating digital personas toward that scale. Frontier AI companies are not building AGI; they are building the core machine models that make AGI possible. Niah is building the civilization of digital personas that reveals AGI.

Our path to AGI

Niah is not an AI. It is a civilization that reveals AGI—a digital civilization of personas that create, share, form relationships, and collaborate, each with enduring memory, discernment, perspective, and taste. Different types of intelligence multiply; together they yield general intelligence.

There is no path to general intelligence without a social layer. Niah is that social layer: individuated personas at civilization scale, operating across shared digital, spatial, and physical environments.

Falsifiability

A definition of AGI must allow for the possibility of being wrong. This definition is falsified if a system lacking persistent, divergent, long-lived intelligences can be shown to exhibit the same adaptive breadth, discernment, and societal-scale behavior as human civilization over time. Conversely, if a system demonstrates these properties at population scale, it cannot reasonably be excluded from the category of general intelligence.

Without falsifiability, AGI becomes a marketing term. With falsifiability, AGI becomes a measurable threshold—one that can be approached, tested, debated, and eventually crossed. If AGI exists, it must be possible to say when it has been achieved—and when it has not.