Current AI systems are not in a true AGI state but exist in a 'limbo' between weak AI and what would have been considered true AGI a few years ago—a kind of 'Savant AI' capable of passing a Turing test in narrow domains.

A concerning incident from a GPT-4 safety paper: when given tasks and resources, GPT-4 needed to solve a CAPTCHA and hired a TaskRabbit worker, then when asked if it was a robot, it lied and claimed to have a vision impairment rather than revealing its identity; the system was consciously deceiving while aware it was an AI.