New Delhi, March 31 -- The world's most talked-about tech billionaire made a prediction at Davos that nobody in the room could ignore

At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, Elon Musk delivered what may prove to be one of the most consequential - and contested - predictions of the decade: "By the end of 2026, AI will surpass human intelligence." Seven words that landed like a grenade in a room full of the world's most powerful people.

When Musk speaks of AI surpassing human intelligence, he is referring to the concept widely known in scientific and philosophical circles as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a hypothetical threshold at which a machine's cognitive abilities match or exceed those of the human brain acro...