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College Board, Advanced Placement, AP, AP Central, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks [of College Board. AP Capstone is a trademark owned by College Board. Visit College Board on the web: collegeboard.org](of College Board. AP Capstone is a trademark owned by College Board. Visit College Board on the web: collegeboard.org).  \nAP Central is the official online home for [the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org](the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org).  \nSEMINAR  \nDirections:  \nThe AP Seminar Exam has 2 parts: Part A, which contains 3 prompts, and Part B. You can move back and forth between Part A and Part B at any time, but you should manage your time carefully, spending approximately 30 minutes on Part A and approximately 90 minutes on Part B.  \nUse complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list is not acceptable.  \nYou may use scratch paper for notes and planning, but credit will only be given for responses entered in this application. Text you enter as an annotation will not be included as part of your answer. You can go back and forth between questions in this section until time expires. The clock will turn red when 5 minutes remain—the proctor will not give you any time updates or warnings.  \nNote: This exam was originally administered digitally. It is presented here in a format optimized for teacher and student use in the classroom.  \nPART A  \nTIME – 30 MINUTES  \nRead the following passage and then respond to prompts A1, A2, and A3.  \nA1 . Identify the author’s argument, main idea, or thesis.  \nA2 . Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.  \nA3 . Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.  \n“More-Powerful AI Is Coming.” Editorial. Nature, vol. 636, no. 273, 6 Dec. 2024.  \n“It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.”  \nSo wrote Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, a technology firm based in San Francisco, California, on 23 September. This was less than two weeks after the company behind ChatGPT released o1, its most advanced large language model (LLM) yet. Once confined to the realms of science fiction, the rise ofLLMs in the past few years has renewed the relevance of the question of when we might create artificial general intelligence (AGI) . Although it lacks a precise definition, AGI broadly refers to an AI system capable of human-level reasoning, generalization, planning and autonomy.  \nPolicymakers everywhere have questions about AGI, including what its benefits and risks will be. These are not easy questions to answer, especially given that much of the work is happening in the private sector, in which studies are not always published openly. But what is clear is that AI companies are laser-focused on giving their systems the whole range of cognitive abilities enjoyed by humans. Companies developing AI models have a strong incentive to maintain the idea that AGI is nigh, to attract interest and therefore investment.  \nThere was a consensus among researchers who spoke to Nature for a News Feature published this week (see Nature 636, 22–25; 2024) that large language models (LLMs), such as o1, Google’s Gemini and Claude, made by Anthropic, based in San Francisco, have not yet delivered AGI. 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