In early September 2026, Nvidia's Jensen Huang declared that artificial general intelligence has arrived, offering public congratulations to OpenAI following GPT-6 Astra's performance on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmarks. The pronouncement carries unusual gravity not merely for its content but for its source — the leader of the company that has most profoundly shaped the infrastructure of the AI era. Humanity now finds itself at a threshold long debated in laboratories and philosophy departments alike, where the question is no longer whether such a milestone is possible, but what it means to live on th