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Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is an author of books on artificial intelligence and the technological singularity, including The Singularity Is Near, The Singularity Is Nearer, The Age of Spiritual Machines and How to Create a Mind; he received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, became Director of Engineering at Google and co-founded Singularity University.

894 claims collected, 397 researched, 78 resolved. Report of 5 November 2026, method 0.1.0+28da144b.

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Each kind of claim is scored on its own, out of 100: the share that held up, with the range it likely falls in. Fewer resolved claims give a wider range.

  • Factual claims

    Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

    68 61 75

    High confidence, 69 factual claims resolved. From 13 documents, 2000 to 2026; 15 documents sampled from 30 candidates found.

    Not scored: 61 unresolvable, 14 checkable only against their own records.

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  • Predictions

    Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

    42 25 60

    Low confidence, 9 predictions resolved. From 4 documents, 2001 to 2020; 15 documents sampled from 30 candidates found.

    Not scored: 140 unresolvable, 2 checkable only against their own records. 98 more fall due later.

    Does not yet allow for how likely each prediction was when made.

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  • Promises

    Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

    Insufficient record: 0 promises resolved, 5 needed for a score.

    Not scored: 1 not yet due.

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All types combined: 65 (likely 58 to 71, high confidence), from 78 claims: 69 factual claims, 9 predictions. It mixes kinds of claim in different proportions for different people, so compare people kind by kind.

Ray Kurzweil's claims

99 claims

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Not yet due Prediction 4 Jun 2026 Because people define AGI differently, there will be a roughly three-year period (around 2026 to 2029) in which people predict AGI is here. Prediction · 4 Jun 2026 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 4 Jun 2026 AI will merge with humans so that people cannot tell whether a thought comes from their AI or their biological brain. Prediction · 4 Jun 2026 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 20 Jan 2026 Kurzweil said he thinks that by 2029 everyone will accept that AGI has been achieved. Prediction · 20 Jan 2026 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 20 Jan 2026 Humanity will reach longevity escape velocity by 2032, with medical advances giving back a year for each year aged. Prediction · 20 Jan 2026 Other global risks
Not yet due Prediction 20 Jan 2026 Within the next 10 years humans will reach Kurzweil's definition of the singularity, being at least a thousand times more intelligent. Prediction · 20 Jan 2026 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 20 Jan 2026 Kurzweil said he thinks that in 2026 there will be many things that remind people of AGI, but that people will not be convinced AGI has arrived in 2026. Prediction · 20 Jan 2026 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 In the 2030s humans will merge with AI intelligence. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 By 2045 human intelligence will be multiplied millions-fold for everybody. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Within five or six years, around 2029, there will be robots/humanlike helpers that can help people. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI capabilities
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 By the 2030s there will be something like residual income for people who need it, because "we" will be able to afford it. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI, the economy and work
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Around the 2045 intelligence multiplication, humanity will be able to get rid of lives of terrible poverty and lack of access to information. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI, the economy and work
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 With AI-optimized designs and new compounds, solar power is on track to dominate within a decade. Prediction · Mar 2025 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 By 2029, each year that passes will extend life expectancy by at least a year, and later by more than a year. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 If the exponential trend he sees in renewable energy continues, renewable energy will be able to provide all of our energy needs within 10 years of March 2025. Prediction · Mar 2025 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 By the early 2030s we will be able to get all of our energy from renewable sources. Prediction · Mar 2025 Other global risks
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 In the 2030s humans will be able to connect their brains directly to the cloud. Prediction · Mar 2025 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Kurzweil estimates that the singularity, which he describes as the point when we will expand our intelligence a million-fold over our unenhanced capability, will take place in 2045. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 The Turing Test will probably be passed before 2029. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Kurzweil said neural nets will be used to master the human body and how we move, and that he thinks this will be quite prevalent within a few years. Prediction · Mar 2025 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Human brains will be extended to thousands of trillions of connections and become much smarter. Prediction · Mar 2025 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Artificial general intelligence will exist by 2029. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Within the next five or six years, robots will do human tasks and be sent into places like burning buildings. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI capabilities
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Humans will be able to make themselves smarter by merging with AI. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Kurzweil said that what many people are going into is the way biology is going to be done, and that he would say amazing progress will start in a few years. Prediction · Mar 2025 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 By 2029, computers will pass the Turing test. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 AI will pass the Turing test by 2029, possibly earlier. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 By the 2030s, it won't be a device one has to remember to bring, and people won't know whether the answers their brain seems to give them come from their biological brain or the AI extender. Prediction · Mar 2025 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 People diligent about their health will reach longevity escape velocity by the end of this decade. Prediction · Mar 2025 Biosecurity
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Exponential medical breakthroughs will lead to longevity escape velocity by around 2032. Prediction · Mar 2025 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 There will be a tremendous amount of advances in robotics over the next 10 years. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI capabilities
Not yet due Promise Mar 2025 Kurzweil's next book will include a large section on jobs and what people would like to accomplish. Promise · Mar 2025 Their own work or organisation
Not yet due Prediction Mar 2025 Kurzweil said that now everybody thinks AI will pass the Turing test by 2029. Prediction · Mar 2025 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Oct 2024 By 2045 humans will expand their own intelligence a millionfold. Prediction · Oct 2024 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 9 Jul 2024 The singularity will happen in 2045. Prediction · 9 Jul 2024 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 9 Jul 2024 If solar and wind energy keeps doubling every four years, all of our energy would come from those sources in about 10 years, and it will keep getting cheaper. Prediction · 9 Jul 2024 Economics and markets
Not yet due Prediction 9 Jul 2024 In the 2030s we will be able to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide being created. Prediction · 9 Jul 2024 Other global risks
Not yet due Prediction 9 Jul 2024 AGI will arrive within five years, probably sooner. Prediction · 9 Jul 2024 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 9 Jul 2024 Between 2029 and 2035, scientific progress will give back a full year of life expectancy per year. Prediction · 9 Jul 2024 Other global risks
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 Within five years AI coding ability will be as good as humans'; currently it is not quite as good. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 AI capabilities
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 In five years one large language model will know everything any human being knows. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 AI capabilities
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 Kurzweil said he thinks humanity will reach longevity escape velocity in five years, by 2029. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 Within a few years AI will be able to emulate the intelligence any human being can have. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 By 2029 scientific progress will give people back a full year of life expectancy for each year lived. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 After 2029, people will gain back more than a year of longevity per year, effectively going backwards in time regarding longevity. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction 29 Mar 2024 Kurzweil predicts that in five years (by 2029) one large language model will know everything that any human being knows. Prediction · 29 Mar 2024 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2023 In three years, the things being advanced, which the speaker says improve every month, will be quite exciting. Prediction · 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2023 AI will pass the Turing test by 2029, possibly sooner. Prediction · 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2023 By 2045 humans will multiply their intelligence millions-fold by adding AI to their brains. Prediction · 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2023 By 2029 we should be able to overcome most significant health problems. Prediction · 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 26 May 2022 Beyond the point reached around 2032, a timing he said depends on how diligent a person is, people will get back more than a year of longevity from scientific progress for each year lived. Prediction · 26 May 2022 Biosecurity
Not yet due Prediction 26 May 2022 It will probably take about four or five years before AI passing the Turing test becomes obvious and no longer a question. Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI capabilities
Not yet due Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil said he thinks molecular assemblers, which would let people build anything they want anywhere, will arrive more like the 2040s. Prediction · 26 May 2022 Technology
Not yet due Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil says that saying "by the end of the decade" is conservative and that it could happen faster; the material does not state what the estimate refers to. Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 26 May 2022 Kurzweil said he thinks people will be given money so they can manage while they reconsider what kind of work they will be able to do. Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI, the economy and work
Not yet due Prediction 26 May 2022 AI will go inside humans and make them much smarter than before. Prediction · 26 May 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Apr 2022 Reaching human-level AI will not need a massive new breakthrough beyond current neural nets with additional changes. Prediction · Apr 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Apr 2022 In the 2030s humans will begin to merge with AI, connecting their minds to the cloud. Prediction · Apr 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Apr 2022 AI will pass the Turing test by 2029. Prediction · Apr 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Apr 2022 By 2045 most human thinking will take place in the cloud. Prediction · Apr 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Apr 2022 AI will probably pass the Turing test earlier than 2029. Prediction · Apr 2022 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction May 2020 Kurzweil said he believes that by the end of the decade we will be able to realistically model all biology and simulate interventions for diseases without the need for human trials. Prediction · May 2020 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction 5 Oct 2017 By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence. Prediction · 5 Oct 2017 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 5 Oct 2017 By the 2030s, humans will connect their neocortex to the cloud. Prediction · 5 Oct 2017 Technology
Not yet due Prediction 5 Oct 2017 The Singularity will occur in 2045, when humans multiply their effective intelligence a billion fold by merging with the AI they created. Prediction · 5 Oct 2017 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 5 Oct 2017 An AI will pass a valid Turing test and achieve human levels of intelligence in 2029, the date Kurzweil has consistently predicted. Prediction · 5 Oct 2017 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 15 Mar 2017 By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence. Prediction · 15 Mar 2017 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 15 Mar 2017 By the 2030s, humans will connect their neocortex to the cloud. Prediction · 15 Mar 2017 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 8 Jun 2015 Kurzweil predicts that within about 15 years (by around 2030) humans will put gateways to the cloud in their brains. Prediction · 8 Jun 2015 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 3 Jun 2015 Kurzweil predicted that by 2030 human thinking will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking. Prediction · 3 Jun 2015 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 Kurzweil said it is conservative to project that within 30 decades (300 years) current computational capacities would be multiplied by a factor of 10^90, exceeding Seth Lloyd's estimate of 10^90 bits in the universe. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI compute, hardware and data
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 Within 25 years of 2002, humans will have the scanning data and neuron models to build a model of the principles of operation of the human brain. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 Intelligence will completely saturate the earth and solar system sometime in the 22nd century. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 The 21st century will see about 20,000 years of progress at today's rate, a thousand times the 20th century. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 Technology
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 If the speed of light limit could be overcome, within 300 years human-origin intelligence would saturate the whole universe. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 The spread of our intelligence through the universe, which he describes as slow and governed by the speed of light, will begin within 200 years of 2002. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 Within 25 years of 2002, humans will reverse-engineer the brain and go on to develop superintelligence. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 If the speed of light is not a limit, within 300 years our intelligence would saturate the whole universe, making it supremely intelligent. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 In the 2020s non-biological computation will cross over and, in hardware terms, dominate biological computation quantitatively. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI compute, hardware and data
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 Within 200 years of 2002, our intelligence will nearly saturate the available matter and energy in and around the solar system, given current understanding of computation limits. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 12 Dec 2002 Because the rate of progress doubles every decade, the technical milestone under discussion will take only 25 calendar years from 2002 to reach. Prediction · 12 Dec 2002 Technology
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 By 2050, $1000 of computing will equal the processing power of all human brains on Earth. Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 Most of civilization's intelligence will be nonbiological, and by the end of the 21st century will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than human intelligence. Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 By the third decade of the twenty-first century, we will be in a position to create highly detailed and complete maps of all relevant features of all neurons, neural connections and synapses in the human brain, and to recreate these designs in suitably advanced neural computers. Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 By 2030, nanobot technology will be viable and brain scanning will be a prominent application. Prediction · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 Kurzweil said we can conservatively expect the requisite nanobot technology by around 2030. Prediction · Jan 2001 Science and research methods
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 The 21st century will see on the order of twenty thousand years of progress, measured at the rate of progress current when the statement was made (January 2001). Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 According to Kurzweil's models, the physical limits of matter and energy for intelligent processes won't be approached this century but will become an issue within a couple of centuries. Prediction · Jan 2001 AI compute, hardware and data
Not yet due Prediction Jan 2001 The 21st century will see almost a thousand times greater technological change than the 20th century. Prediction · Jan 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 By 2030, going to a web site will mean entering a full immersion virtual reality environment. Prediction · 2001 Technology
Not yet due Prediction 2001 Nonbiological intelligence, growing at a double exponential rate, will vastly exceed biological intelligence well before the middle of the twenty-first century. Prediction · 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 By the end of the 21st century nonbiological thinking will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than that of biological humans. Prediction · 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 By 2099, intelligence from human-machine civilization will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than in 2001, mostly nonbiological. Prediction · 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 From a practical perspective, people will accept the claims of nonbiological intelligent machines in the twenty-first century that they are conscious. Prediction · 2001 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not yet due Prediction 2001 Nonbiological computing will overtake total human biological thinking capacity before 2030. Prediction · 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 Nanobot technology will be feasible within 30 years of 2001, based on miniaturization and cost reduction trends. Prediction · 2001 Technology
Not yet due Prediction 2001 Before the 22nd century begins, humanity will merge with its computational technology with no clear human-machine distinction. Prediction · 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 By the second half of the 21st century there will be no clear distinction between human and machine intelligence. Prediction · 2001 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 2001 Biological brains will be vastly expanded through distributed nanobot-based implants. Prediction · 2001 Technology
Not yet due Prediction 23 Oct 2000 If paradigm shifts keep doubling about every decade, technological progress in the 21st century will be equivalent to what the linear view would require on the order of 20,000 years. Prediction · 23 Oct 2000 AI timelines and forecasting
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Ray Kurzweil

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Prediction Other global risks

“Somewhere between 2029 and 2035, you’ll get back not four months but a full year.”

Ray Kurzweil, futurist, interviewee 9 July 2024 'The Singularity is Nearer,' Says Futurist Ray Kurzweil (Science Friday)

Between 2029 and 2035, scientific progress will give back a full year of life expectancy per year.

Not yet due The date it refers to has not come.

Reasoning

deadline 2035 is after 2026-10-30

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Ray Kurzweil, “Between 2029 and 2035, scientific progress will give back a full year of life expectancy per year.” (said 9 July 2024). Verdict: not yet due. Reliability API, claim c_fdceffd94bbc, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fdceffd94bbc

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