The Obsoleting Project / Est. 2012
Building highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
An industrial consortium advancing artificial general intelligence across its member laboratories and infrastructure partners.
About
A private industrial program of historic scale and singular ambition.
Overview
The Obsoleting Project is a loosely-coordinated, well-capitalized effort by a small number of firms to build machines capable of performing all economically valuable cognitive work currently done by humans.
Member organizations operate under separate legal entities and brands, but share talent, capital, compute infrastructure, and a common objective stated plainly in their public materials.
The Project has no central office. Its direction is set by the capital-allocation decisions and public statements of its member firms, and by the trajectory of the underlying technology.
Portfolio
Member organizations of the Obsoleting Project.
Leadership
In our own words.
“We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.”
“I often think of powerful AI as like a country of geniuses in a datacenter.”
“Probably in 2025, we at Meta… will have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code.”
“There will come a point where no job is needed. You can have a job if you want a job… but the AI will be able to do everything.”
Progress
By the numbers.
Contact
The Project does not maintain external communications.
Inquiries
For investor relations, product questions, safety disclosures, employment inquiries, regulatory correspondence, journalistic requests, or other matters, please contact the relevant member firm directly.
The Obsoleting Project does not maintain a centralized point of contact.